The great herbal which giveth perfect knowledge and understanding of all manner of herbs & there gracious virtues which god ha●● ordained for our prosperous welfare and health/ for they hele & cure all man●● of diseases and sicknesses that fall or misfortune to all manner of creatour●● of god created/ practised by many expert and wise masters/ as Auicenna ● other. etc. Also it giveth full perfit understanding of the book lately pr●●tyd by me (Peter treueris) named the noble experiens of the virtuous ha●●warke of surgery.  
 frontispiece: outdoor scene with man leaning on shovel and plucking grapes, woman dumping plants or flower from apron into basket, trees in the background, flowering plants front center, and male and female mandrakes at the front corners   

considering the great goodness of almighty god creator of heaven and earth/ and all thing therein comprehended to whom be eternal laud and prays. etc. considering the course and nature of the four elements and qualities where to the nature of man is inclined/ out of the which elements issueth divers qualities infirmities and diseases in the corporate body of man/ but god of his goodness that is creator of all things hath ordained for mankind (which he hath created to his own likeness) for the great and tender love/ which he hath unto him to whom all things earthly he hath ordained to be obeisant/ for the sustentation & health of his loving creature mankind which is only made equally of the four elements and qualities of the same/ and when any of these four abound or hath more domination the one than the other than it constraineth the body of man to great infirmities or diseases/ for the which the eternal god hath given of his haboundante grace/ virtues in all manner of herbs to cure and heal all manner of sicknesses or infyrmytes to him befalling through the influent course of the four elements beforesaid/ and of the corruptions and the venomous airs contrary the health of man Also of onholsam meats or drinks/ or holsam meats or drinks taken ontemperatly which be called surfeits that bringeth a man soon to great diseases or sickness/ which diseases been of number and ompossyble to be rehearsed/ and fortune as well in villages where as neither surgeons nor physicians be dwelling nigh by many a mile/ as it doth in good towns where they be ready at hand. Wherefore brotherly love compelleth me to write through the gifts of the holy ghost showing and informing how man may be helped with green herbs of the garden and weds of the fields as well as by costly recepts of the potycaries prepared. Also it is to be understand that all manner of medicines that be contrary to sicknesses is for the great superfluity of the humours or the diminution of them/ or for to restrain the course where it is against the feebleness of the virtues for the alteration or solution of contynuetes or wounds or other beginnings. etc. It is also to be understand that we find medicines simple/ laxative/ appetisant/ & minishing the superhabundance of humours/ and also simple medicines current and also medicines alteratytes and consolydatyfes. etc. This noble work is compiled/ composed and authorized by divers & many noble doctors and expert masters in medicines/ as Auicenna. Pandecta. Constantinus. Wilhelmus. Platearius. Rabbi moyses. johannes mesue. Haly. Albertus. Bartholomeus. & more other. etc.,   

¶ The register of the chaptrees in latin and in Englyssge.  

ALoe/ a juice so named ca i.  
Aloes/ a would so named ca two.  
Aurum/ gold ca iii.  
Argentum vivum/ quick silver ca iiii.  
Asa fetida ca v.  
Agnus castus/ tutson ca vi.  
Alumem/ alum ca seven.  
Apium/ smalache or stammarche ca viii.  
Apium ramium/ wild smalache ca ix.  
Apium risus/ crowfote or ache ca x.  
Apium emorroidarum ca xi.  
Amidum ca xii.  
Anthimonium/ antymony ca xiii.  
Achasia/ juice of flows/ or bolays ca xiiii.  
Agaricus/ agaric ca xv.  
Anetum/ dill ca xvi.  
Affodillus/ affodyly ca xvii.  
Alium/ garlic ca xviii.  
Acorus/ gladon ca nineteen.  
Armoniacum/ a gum ca xx.  
Amsum/ anise ca xxi.  
Abscinthium/ wormwood. ca xxii.  
Anacardus ca xxiii.  
Amigdala/ sweet almonds ca xxiiii.  
Amigdala amara/ bitter almonds. ca xxv  
Aristologia rotunda/ smerewort or meek ●atingale. ca xxvi.  
Aristologia longa/ reed mader ca xxvii  
Ambra/ amber ca xxviii.  
Artemisia/ mugwort or moderwort Ca xxix.  
Artemisia minor/ the middle mugwoort Ca thirty.  
Artemisia minima/ the less mugwort Ca xxxi.  
Acetum/ vinegar ca xxxii.  
Acomia/ alcamet ca xxxiii.  
Auripigmentum/ auripygment. ca xxxiiij  
Aspaltum vel bitumen judaicum. ca xxxvi.  
Acantum ca xxxvi.  
Adianthos/ maiden wede ca xxxvii.  
Agrimonia/ egrymony ca xxxviii  
Appollinaria/ appollynayre ca xxxix.  
Altea/ high mallow ca xl.  
Astula regia/ woodrone ca xli.  
Ambrosiana/ hyndhele ca xlii.  
Asara ca xliii.  
Atriplex/ arache ca xliiii.  
Anthera ca lxv.  
Anchora/ actoyre ca xlvi.  
Auena/ ote ca xlvii.  
Ameos'/ woodnep or penywort. ca xlviii.  
Semen amomy ca xliiii.  
Alleluya/ wood sokell or cocowes' meat Ca. l.  
Acetos●/ sorrel ca li.  
Auelana/ filberts ca lii.  
Albarra/ tormentylle ca liii.  
Aqua/ water ca liv.   

BAlsamus/ balm tree ca lv.  
Bolus armenus ca lvi.  
Bombax/ cotton Idem.  
Balaustia/ flowers of pomgarnates Ca lxvii.  
Borago/ borage ca lviii.  
Baucia/ skyrwyt ca lix.  
Borax/ boras ca lx.  
Betonica/ betony ca lxi.  
Lingua anceris/ goose bill or stychewort Ca lxii.  
Bernix/ a gum ca lxiii.  
Branca ursina/ bearefote ca lxiiii.  
Berberis/ berberyes ca lxv.  
Belliculi marini ca lxvi.  
Bistorta ca lxvii.  
Buglossa/ ortongue ca lxviii.  
Butirum. butter. ca lxix.  
Berbena. Vernay. ca lxx.  
Britanica. ca lxxi.  
Bursa pastoris. cassewede ca lxxii.  
Brionia. wild neppe. ca lxxiii.  
Bedager. Eglentyne ca lxxiiii.  
Bdellium. a gum. ca lxxv.  
Bardana. a clote that beareth burrs. Ca lxxvi.  
Buxus. a box tree. ca lxxvii.  
Bruscus. ca lxxviii  
Bleta. betes. ca lxxix.  
Blacte bisantie. some snales. ca lxxx.  
Behem. ca lxxxi.   

CAmphora. camfer. ca lxxxii.  
Coloquintida. wild gowrde. Ca lxxxiii.  
Cassia fistula. ca lxxxiiii.  
Cuscuta. dodyr. ca lxxxv.  
Cardamomum. ca lxxxvi.  
Cerusa. ceruse. ca lxxxvii.  
Capparus. ca lxxxviii.  
Calamentum. calamynt. ca xc.  
Centaurea. centaury. ca xci.  
Cassea lignea. ca xcii.  
Castoreum. beaver bollocks. ca xciii.  
Cucube. ca xciiij.  
Capillus veneris. maiden here. ca xcv.  
Cypressus. cypress ca xcvi.  
Cynamomum. ca xcvii.  
Camedrios. garmaundre ca xcviii  
Camephiteos. mederacle. xcix.  
carvi. ca c.  
Ciminum. comym ca ci.  
Cicuta hemlock ca cii.  
Crocus saffron ca ciii.  
Ciperus wild galingale ca ciiii.  
Calamus aromaticus ca cv.  
Corallus coral ca cvi.  
Cepe. onion ca cvii  
Cretanus. croyt marine ca cviii.  
Costus. cost marry ca cix.  
Caprago. galligaria Idem.  
Cantabrum. bran ca cx.  
Colophonia. pitch of grece ca xci.  
Cucurbita. a gourd ca cxii  
cucumber. cowcommers' ca cxiii.  
Citrullus. citrons ca cxiiii.  
Celidonia. celendyne ca cxv.  
Coriandrum. coriander ca cxvi.  
Cawls. call wortes ca cxvii.  
Calx. lime ca xviii.  
Cerifolium. chervil ca ●  
Canapus. hemp ca cxi  
Cameleonta. wolf thistle. ca cxxi.  
Camomilla. camomile ca cxxii.  
Cicer. achery ca cxxiii.  
Castanea. a chestnut ca cxxiiii.  
Cotula. ca cxxxv.  
Cotilidion ca cxxxi  
Cathapucia. spurge ca cxxxvi.  
Culcasia ca cxxviii.  
Canna. a reed ca cxxix  
Canna mellis. a sugar reed ca cxxx.  
Calendula, marry goules or ruddes. ca cxxxi  
Ceterach ca cxxxii.  
Candelaria ca cxxxiii.  
Carabe. amber Idem.  
Consolida maior. comfrey ca cxxxiiii.  
Consolida media. maythen ca cxxxv.  
Consolida minor. dyasy or brusewort Ca cxxxvi.  
Coronaria. honysocle ca cxxxvii.  
Cenurugio ca cxxxviii.  
Cerasa. cherries ca cxxxix.  
Caprifolium. woodbine ca cxl.   

DIagridium. a juice of a tree. ca cxli  
Dragagantum a gum. ca cxlii.  
Daucus ca cxliii.  
Dragantum. coperose ca cxliiii  
Dyptanus ca cxlv  
Deronicis ca cxlvi  
Dactili ca cxlvii   

Endivia/ endive ca cxlviii.  
Epithimum ca cxlix.  
Enula campana/ elf dock/ scab wort or horshele ca cl:  
Euforbium/ a gum ca cli.  
Eupatorium/ wild sawge ca clii.  
Emblici ca cliii.  
Epatica/ leverwort ca cliiii.  
Es ustum/ brent brass ca clu  
Electerium/ a juice. ca clvi.  
●lleborus albus/ lyngwort or peleter of ●payne ca clvii.  
Elleborus niger/ pedelion or lions foot Ca clviii.  
Esula ca clix.  
Eruca skyrwyt or wild cawls that beneath mustardesede ca clx.  
●mathites is a stone ca clxi.  
Ebulus walworde ca clxii.  
Edera magna/ yvy ca clxiii.  
Spatula fetida/ yellow flag. ca clxiiii  
Elitropium/ cycory ca clxv.  
Eufragia/ eufrase ca cxlvi.   

FLammula/ sereworte ca clxvii  
Ferrugo ca clxviii.  
Fumus terre/ fumyterry ca clxix.  
Filipendula/ dropwort ca clxx.  
Fraxinus/ asshe●re ca clxxi.  
Feniculus/ fennel ca clxxii  
Fenugcecum/ fenugreek/ or setwall. Ca clxxiii.  
Filex/ fern ca clxxiiii  
Fragraria/ strawberries c●. clxxv.  
Fistularia ca clxxvi  
Faceoli ca clxxvii.  
Faba inversa ca clxxviii.  
Faba communis/ beans ca clxxix.  
Fungi/ mussherons ca clxxx  
Ferula ca clxxxi.  
Filex dictus os munda/ heferne. ca clxxxii  
Fuligo/ soot ca clxxxiii  
Ficus/ a fig ca clxxxiiii.   

GAriofili/ clowes ca clxxxv.  
Genciana/ felwort or baldymony Ca clxxxvi.  
Galanga/ galingale ca clxxxvii.  
Galbanum ca clxxxviii  
Gummus arabicus/ gum of arabic. Ca clxxxix.  
Gariofilata/ anens ca cxc.  
Gith/ herba indica/ cokill ca cxci.  
Gromyli milium solis/ lychworte. Ca cxcii.  
Gallitricum/ clary ca cxciii  
Galla/ galls nuts ca cxciiii.  
Genestula/ woodyp ca cxcv.  
Genesta/ broom ca cxcvi.  
Gramen/ quekes ca xcxvii.  
Gallia muscata a confection ca cxcviii  
Grias ca cc.  
Gomma elempici ca cc.  
Granum fractum/ broken grain. ca ccii.  
Grisomuli ca cciii.  
Gracia dei ca cciiii.  
Golgemma ca ccv.  
Gelasia. ca ccvi.   

HErmodactilus ca ccvii.  
Herba sqinancia. ca ccviii.  
Herucaria herba rabiosa/ wart wort ca ccix.  
Herpillus ca ccx.  
Herba incensaria. ca ccxi.  
Herba paralius/ crowslyp or pagle: Ca ca ccxii.   

IVsquiamus. henbane ca ccxiii  
Isopus. ysope ca ccxiiii.  
jarus. cuckoo pyntyll. ca ccxv.  
Iris. bleweflouredelyce ca ccxvi.  
Ipoquistidos. toad stoles ca ccxv.  
juniperus. ienepre ca ccxvi.  
Ipericon. saint johannes wort. ca ccxix.  
Iparis vel cauda equina ca ccxx.  
Inantes vel lambrusca. wild wine. Ca: ccxxi.  
juiubes ca ccxxii.  
Indacus vel herba fulionum ca ccxxiii  
Ina ca ccxxiiii.  
Incensaria ca ccxxv.  
jerubuli ca ccxxvi.  
Immolum album ca ccxxvii.   

LApdanum ca ccxxviii.  
Liquiricia. liquorice ca ccxxix  
Lapus lazalus. azure ca ccxxx.  
Lilium. lily ca ccxxxii.  
Lingua avis. ash sede ca ccxxxiii.  
Linotis vel mercuryalis. mercury Ca ccxxxv.  
Lapacium. reed dock ca ccxxxvi.  
Litargirum. lytargye ca ccxxxvii  
Lactuca. lettuce ca ccxxxviii.  
Lactuca siluestris. wild lettuce. Ca ccxxxix.  
Lupini ca ccxl.  
Laurus. laurel or bays ca ccxli.  
Lentiscus ca ccxlii.  
Lentes ca ccxliii.  
Laurela/ mustylago. rybwort. ca ccxliiii  
Levystycum. lovage ca ccxlv:  
Lolium. cokill Idem.  
Lupulus. hop Idem  
Lapis magnes. adamant stone. ca ccxlvi.  
Lapis agapis ca ccxlvii.  
Lapis lincis ca cc. xlviii.  
Lapis armenicus ca ccxlix.  
Lapis emathites. the blood stone. ca ccl.  
Lapis lychodemonis ca ccli.  
Lapis spongy ca cclii.  
Lentopedon. pedelion ca ccliii.  
Lactuca agrestis. wild lettuce. ca ccliiii  
Linosa. line sede ca cclvi.  
Lignaria ca cclvii.  
Lenticula aque. ducks meat. ca cclviii.  
Lyngua canis/ chynoglossa. hondestongue Ca cclix.  
Lingua hircina. buckesshorne. ca cclx.  
Lacca. a gum ca cclxi.  
Lanceolata. long plantain. ca cclxii.  
Lactuca leporis. hare's lettuce. ca cclxiii.  
Lapaceola. little burr or clyver. Ca cclxiiii  
Lymaces rubee. reed snails. ca cclxv.   

MIrtus. a little tree ca cclxvi.  
Manna. is a dew ca cclxvii.  
Mellilotum. is an herb so named Ca cclxviii.  
Malua. maloves ca cclxix.  
Maluiscus. wild malowes. ca cclxx.  
Malua ortulana. holy hocke ca cclxxi.  
Mastix. mastic. ca cclxxii.  
Menta. mints ca cclxxiii.  
Menta romana. white mint. ca cclxxiiii  
Mentastrum. horse mint. ca cclxxv.  
Margarite. pearls ca cclxxvi.  
Mommia. mommye ca cclxxvii.  
Mandragora. mandrake ca cclxxviii.  
Meu. ca cclxxix.  
Mala citonica/ quince/ apples ca cclxxx.  
Mala granata/ pomgarnades. ca cclxxxi.  
Mala maciana/ would crabs or wyldinges. ca cclxxxii  
Marubium/ horehound ca cclxxxiii  
Mel/ honey ca cclxxxiiii  
Muscus/ musk ca cclxxxv.  
Mirabolani ca cclxxxvi.  
Maces ca cclxxxvii.  
Mhirra/ myrrh ca cclxxxviii  
Millium/ mill ca cclxxxix.  
Maiorana/ gentle margetyn. ca ccxc.  
Melissa/ balm ca ccxci.  
Mora celsi/ mulberies ca ccxcii.  
Matrisilua woodbine ca ccxciii.  
Macedonicum/ stammarche or alysander Ca ccxciiii.  
Morsus diaboli/ remcop or devils bit Ca ccxcv.  
Ima muscata ca ccxcvi.  
Millefolium/ yarrow ca ccxcvii.  
Muse ca ccxcviii.  
Melonges ca ccxcix.  
Mora bacci. black berries ca ccci.  
Melones. melons ca cccii.   

NArsturcium tame cress ca ccciii.  
Narsturcium agreste wild cress Ca ccciiii.  
Nitrum vel sal nitri ca cccv:  
Nenufar ca cccvi.  
Nux muscata nutmeg ca cccvii  
Nux indica nuts of Ind ca cccviij.  
Nux styatica ca cccix.  
Nux communis wall nuts ca cccx:  
Nux vomica spwing nuts. ca cccxi.  
Nigella cokill ca cccxii.  
Nespiius mydlers or nefles ca cccxiii   

Oximun vel basilicon basil. ca cccxiiii  
Oppoponacum a juice ca cccxv.  
Opium a juice ca cccxvi.  
Origanum brotherworte ca cccxvii.  
Oxifenix vel tamarindus ca cccxviii  
Ordeum barley ca cccxix.  
Os de cord cerui the bone in the heart of an hurt. ca cccxix.  
Os sepie the bone of a fish ca cccxxi.  
Olibanum ca cccxxii  
Olive/ olives ca cccxxiii  
Olium olivarum/ oil of olives ca cccxxiiii  
Oliandrum/ oliandre ca cccxxv.   

PIretrum/ walwort ca cccxxvi  
Piper/ pepper ca cccxxvii  
Peonia/ pyony ca cccxxviii.  
Papaver/ popy ca cccxxix  
Pencedanum/ dogfenell ca cccxxx  
Petrosilium/ percely ca cccxxxi.  
Policaria/ polycary ca cccxxxii.  
Pinea/ pine tree or apples ca cccxxxiii  
Pruni/ plums ●a. cccxxiiii  
Penicle or penette ca cccxxxv  
Psilium/ a sede ca cccxxxvi.  
Polipodium/ oak fern ca: cccxxxvi  
Petrolium ca cccxxxvii  
Piscates ca: cccxxxix  
Portulaca/ porcelyne ca cccxl.  
Plombum/ lead ca cccxli.  
Polium montanun wild tyme. ca cccxlii.  
Pix/ pitch ca cccxliii  
Plantago/ plantain ca, cccxliiii  
Lanceolata/ long plantain. ca cccxlv  
Panicus/ panycle ca cccxlvi  
Pentaphilon/ vyfleved grass. ca cccxlvii  
Passerina lingua vel centynode/ swines grass/ knotgrass/ or sparrow tongue Ca cccxlviii  
Politricum/ walfarne ca cccxlix  
Premula veris/ prymerolles ca cccl  
Pallacium leporis hares palace. ca cccli  
Pulmonaria/ crayfery or lungwort Ca ccclii  
Percicaria/ arssmert or culrage. ca cccliij  
Paracella ca cccliiij  
Pimpinella/ self heal or pimpernel Ca ccclv  
Pilocella/ mows ear ca: ccclvi  
Provinca/ perwynke ca: ccclvii  
Palma cristi. ca ccclviii.  
Persici/ peaches ca ccclix  
Olium persicorun/ oil of peaches kernels Ca: ccclx  
Pes columbinus/ doves foot ca: ccclxi   

RVta/ rue ca: ccclxii  
Rosa/ rose ca ccclxiii  
Rafanus/ rape rote. ca: ccclxiiii  
Radix/ a radysshe ca: ccclxv  
Reubarbarum/ rhubarb ca: ccclxvi  
Rubea/ madder ca: ccclxvii  
Porrum/ a leek ca: ccclxviii  
Piganium/ wild rue ca ccclxix  
Ros marinus: rosmary ca: ccclxx  
Rubus/ a brere or bramble ca ccclxxi  
Rdoalia ca ccclxxii  
Risum. rys ca ccclxxiii.  
Robellis ca ccclxxiiii.  
Rapistrum/ wild rapes ca ccclxxv.  
Rapa/ rapes ca ccclxxvi.   

SPica nardus/ spike ca ccclxxvii.  
Solatrum/ petymorell or nightshade ca ccclxxviii.  
Serapinum/ serapin ca ccclxxx.  
Semper vina/ howsleke or selfegrene Ca ccclxxxi.  
Sulphur/ brimstone ca ccclxxxii.  
Sileos' ca ccclxxxiii.  
Saponaria/ crowsoppe ca ccclxxxiiii.  
Sanguis draconis/ dragon's blood Ca ccclxxxv.  
Squinantum/ camels straw. ca ccclxxxvi  
Semen napij/ mustered sede. ca ccclxxxvii  
Sarcocolla/ a gum ca ccclxxxviii.  
Sticados citrinum ca ccclxxxix.  
Sticados arabicum ca cccxc.  
Satyrion/ gangelon or hare bollocks Ca cccxci.  
Sponsa solis/ cycorea/ chicory. ca cccxcii.  
Strafularia ca cccxciii.  
Spodium/ ivory ca cccxciiii  
Strucium ca cccxcv.  
Stinces' ca cccxcvi.  
Scordeon. wild garlic ca cccxcvii  
Sapo/ soap ca cccxcviii.  
Sperago/ sperage ca cccxcix.  
Savina/ savyn ca CCCC.  
Saxifraga/ saxyfrage ca cccci  
Sal/ salt ca ccccii.  
Sal armeniacum/ salt armenyake Ca cccciii.  
Sisunbrum ca cccciiii.  
Sal gemma/ salt gem ca ccccv.  
Saluia/ sawge ca ccccvi.  
Scabiosa/ scabyous ca ccccvii.  
Senacio. Narsturcium/ cresses. Ca ccccviii.  
Senethon/ grownswell ca ccccix.  
Serpentina/ dragon's or snakesgrasse Ca ccccx.  
Salix/ a willow tree ca ccccxi.  
Sambucus/ elder ca ccccxii.  
Squilla/ a squyll/ or see onion Ca ccccxiii.  
Storax ca ccccixiii.  
Sumac ca ccccxv.  
Staphisagria ca ccccxvi.  
Sandale/ sandres ca ccccxvii.  
Seine ca ccccxviii.  
Serpillum/ pellyter ca ccccxix.  
Satureia/ saverey ca ccccxx.  
Sanguinaria/ blodworte or yarrow Ca ccccxxi.  
Stolopendria/ hearts tongue. ca ccccxxii  
Soldanea ca ccccxxiii.  
Spynachia/ spinach ca ccccxxiiii.  
Sicla/ bleta/ betes ca ccccxxv.  
Stologium/ cynes ca ccccxxvi.  
Spergula/ clyvers ca ccccxxvii.  
Silfu/ wild valeryane ca ccccxxviii.  
Sambacus. ca ccccxxix.  
Spina benedicta ca ccccxxx.  
Scalcu ca ccccxxxi.  
Sebasten ca ccccxxxii.  
Sistra/ dill ca ccccxxxiii.  
Salunica. caltrappe ca ccccxxxiiii.  
Spuma maris. a pounce ca ccccxxx.  
Spongia marina. a sponge ca ccccxxxvi.  
Sigillum sancte marry. our ladies seal. Ca ccccxxxvii.  
Saxifraga minor. the less sarifrage. Ca ccccxxxviii.  
Sorbes ca ccccxxxix  
Synomum. wild percely ca ccccxl.  
Orant. ca ccccxii.  
Sizania. ray or cockyll ca cccc. xlii.   

TAmariscus. ca cccc. xliij.  
Tarra sigillata. ca cccc. xliiii.  
Tetrahit. ca cccc. xlv.  
Tintimallus. ca cccc. xlvi.  
Turbith. ca cccc. xlvii.  
Tapsia. ca cccc. xlviii.  
Tela aranea. Spider wekbe. ca cccc. xlix  
Tapsus barbatus. Hareberde or hyghtapper. ca cccc. l.  
Terbentina. Terpentyne. ca cccc. li.  
Tribulus marinus. reed brere. ca cccc. lii.  
Tormentilla. tormentil. ca cccc. liii.  
Trifolium. Trefle or three leaved grass. Ca cccc. liv.  
Tartarus. wine lies or wine stone. Ca cccc. lv.  
Thucia. a stove so called. ca cccc. lvi.  
Terediabin. ca cccc. lvii.  
Triticum. Whete. ca cccc. lviii.   

VIole. Vyolettes. ca cccc. lix.  
Valeriana. valerian. ca cccc. lx.  
Vitrum. Glass ca cccc. lxi.  
Virga pastoris. wild tasyl. ca cccc. lxii.  
Titicella. ca cccc. lxiii.  
Viperina/ urtica mortua. Deed nettle or archangel. ca cccc. lxiiii.  
Vrtica. Nettle. ca cccc. lxv.  
Vermicularis. ca cccc. lxvi.  
Volubilis. Would bind. ca cccc. lxvii.  
Vicetorium. ca cccc. lxviii.  
Vua. A grape ca cccc. lxix.  
Vitis alba. ca cccc. lxx.  
Vulfago. ca cccc. lxxii.  
Verbena vel sacra herba. ca cccc. lxxiii.  
Vngula caballina ca cccc. lxxiiii.  
Vua versa ca cccc. lxxv.   

Zilocrates. ca cccc. lxxvi.  
Zynziber. Gynger. ca cccc. lxxvii.  
Zedoare. Setwale. ca cccc. lxxviii.  
Zisania. ca cccc. lxxix.  
zypulis. Frytures. ca cccc. lxxx.  
zuccarun. Sugar. ca cccc. lxxxi.  
¶ Abrotanum. ca cccc. lxxxii.  
Arbour glandis. an oaken tree. ca cccc. lxxxiii.  
¶ Bos. an ox. ca cccc. lxxxiiii.  
¶ Cantarides ca cccc. lxxxv.  
Capra. agote. ca cccc. lxxxvi.  
Cancer. a crevysshe. ca cccc. lxxxvii.  
Columba. a dove. ca cccc. lxxxviii.  
Caseus. Cheese. ca cccc. lxxxix.  
Siligo. Rye. Idem.  
Edus. ca cccc. xc.  
Lepus. An hare. ca cccc. xci.  
Pira. ca cccc. xcii.  
Poma. Apples ca cccc. xciii.  
Pyrola. ca cccc. xciiii.  
Ribs. ca cccc. xcv  
Vsnea. Moss. ca cccc. xcvi.  
Cardo benedicta. sowthistle. ca cccc. xcvii  
Vulpis. a fox. ca cccc. xcviii  
Citrum. ca cccc. xcix.  
Vua pass. Rasyns of corans. ca ccccc.  
Vibex. ca ccccc. i.  
Ydropiper. ca ccccc. two.  
Ynguirialis. ca ccccc. iii.  
Yacea. mare●olon. ca ccccc. iiii.  
Scamonea. ca ccccc. v.   
¶ Finis huius tabule.   

 human skeleton labeled with names of bones 
Os laud.  
Os parietale  
Os petrosum  
Os paxillare.  
Os forcule  
Os spatule  
Os adiutorij  
¶ cost.  
Os hanche  
Os rasceti  
Os pectinis  
Ossa digitorum  
Os Core.  
Ratula genu  
Minor can  
Os cahab  
Os ●●uiculare  
Oss● ca●ceti  
Ossa digitorum  
Os femoris  
Os ilijet Pix is sub Anchis  
¶ Item tria ossa caude⸫  
Maior canna.  
Os calcanei.  
Ossa pect ivis.  
Os parietale⸫  
Os coronale  
Os pectinis  
Ossa paris  
Ossa nast.  
Spondiles.  
Os furcule.  
Os spatule.  
Os adiutorij.  
cost.  
Os focile.  
Ossa rasceti.  
Ossa pertinis  
Ossa digitorum  
Os scie.  
Os cox.  
Spatulageun.  
Minor canna.  
Os cahab  
Os naviculare.  
Ossa rasceti  
Ossa digitorum.    


¶ De Aloe. Ca I.  
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ALoe is hot & dry of complexion in the ii degree Aloe is made of the juice of an herb named Aloen. But we call it Cymbre ¶ This herb groweth in Ind pierce/ and Poole/ And there been three manners of Aloen/ Cycotryn/ Epatyc and Cabalyn/ And it is made in this manner. The herb is powned and the juice wrong out/ and set on the fire/ and when it boileth it is taken from the fire and seat in the son to wax thick/ and that is taken upperest is the most pure/ and that is Cycotryne/ That in the mids is Eparyc/ And that in the bottom is Cabalyn/ which is course and earthy/ anywhat opinion is false/ But we say that they been made of iii different herbs/ not of kind but in goodness as of divers good grapes been made different wines. The best Aloe is the Cycotryne/ and it is known by the colour that is yellow/ drawing to brown/ and specially when it is broken the powder of it is like powder of saffron/ and also the substance of it when it is broken in small pyces is clear and subtile/ & breaketh lightly And also is it known when it stinketh not nor is to bitter/ and sometime is gommy/ and sometime bryttyll. The colour of Aloe epatyc is like the colour of liver/ drawing to black/ and hath holes here and there like the ends of veins and the substance thereof is deed and unclear and hath the signs of the Cycotryne/ safe that it is weyker of colour. Aloe Cabalyn is black and dim/ the substance thereof is earthy & very bitter with horrible stinking savour. This Aloe cabalin is sometime made so craftily that it seemeth Epatyc or Cycotryne And though in this book we put the craftiness or deceit of medicines/ It is not because we would not that it should be made/ but to eschew the fraud of them that selleth it/ and thus it is made deceitful. It is put in vinegar with Orient saffron with a little of a nutmeg or other sweet smelling spice/ and than broken in peyces very small. And bound with threads/ and it is put often in vinegar and than dried/ and so is done x. or xii times till it changeth colour and smell & it is stirreth so long that it seemeth Epatyc or Cycotryne/ so that scantly is any difference to be seen/ but it is known in the breaking/ for than it stynkyth/ and so doth not the other two. And it is to be known that all thing of his nature ought to be aromatic and of sweet smell/ for the sweeter it smelleth the better it is. And so all things that in their kine ought to have any savour the most common is best/ except Aloe/ for how be it that it ought to be bitter of his nature/ yet the less it is by the better it is.  

¶ To purge flewmes. A  
¶ Aloe hath virtue to purge & cleanse flewmes/ and humours of melancholy. Also it hath virtue to comfort the senewy membres/ & availeth against cold humours contained in the stomach/ and easeth the pain of the heed caused of fumes rising fro the stomach.   

¶ To clear the sight and scabbeys. B  
¶ It cleareth the sight and unstoppeth the opilations of the liver/ and the milt/ it provoketh the flowers to women/ and cleanseth the superfluities that been out of the pudens or privy membres/ if it be caused of cold. ¶ It healeth the scabbeys/ and yieldeth good colour to them that have none coming by sickness.   

¶ To stop the blood of a wound. C  
¶ It stoppeth the blood of a wound/ and closeth it/ if plasters be made with white of an egg/ and oil/ laid to the wound often. And is good against falling of the hrare?   

¶ Against flewmatike humours. D  
¶ If Flawmatyke or melancolic humours abound in the stomach/ and by indygestyon/ with ii drams of mastic/ if it be cold it chausseth/ and if it be feeble it comforteth.   

¶ For the stomach. E  
¶ For the same a grain of aloe given with honey cleanseth the stomach/ and procureth digestion. Pewdre of mastic and aloe meddled together/ and sudden in white wine ought to be given for the same. Or else draw the tongue out of the mouth as far as ye may/ and lay ii grains of Aloe deep thereon that it may be swallowed/ and though Aloe be bitter in the mouth/ yet it is sweet and good in the stomach. And therefore it is called Glistonia/ that is to say bitter. Epiglistonia is that it is sweet for the stomach.   

¶ For pain of the heed. F  
¶ Also the Ieraxigra wherein is put good Aloe availeth to the pain in the heed and cleareth the sight.   

¶ For the sight G  
¶ Also jera constrantyne meddled with good Aloe is profitable for the sight. Also to claryfye the sight. Aloe taken only/ or with Mirabolanum confect and drunk. Take two drams of Aloe/ and one of mastic or of dragagantum with Syrup and lukewarm water for that is proved to claryfy the sight.   

¶ For the liver and for the milt. H  
¶ Against opilation of the liver or of the milt/ take Aloe with juice of smallage warm/ or make decoction of the roots of smallage/ percely/ fennel/ benworte/ & sparge with two drams of mastic/ and use ix two. or three times in the week. This decoction provoketh the flowers to women a suppository made of tryfera magna with powdre of Aloe Epatyc upon it.   

¶ For ill colour. I  
¶ Against ill colour caused of the coldness of the stomach or sickness precedent specially if it come by opilation of the liver. Take a dram of Aloe/ and half a dram of mastic with an ounce of worm wood ii times in the week/ and it will preserve from falling in to the dropsy in the beginning as we have proved it.   

¶ For worms in the belly and ears K  
¶ The powder of Aloe taken with honey sleeth worms in the belly/ and with the herb Percicarya called Arssmert/ it slayeth worms and beasts/ that is entered in to the ears if it be dropped in them.   

¶ For falling of the hear. L  
¶ Against falling of the hear/ boil the rote of an old olive tree in vinegar/ and strain it and in the strening put the two parts of Lupynus amarus/ and the third of Aloe meddled together/ & put there to powder of Stafisager/ and anoint the heed therewith.   

¶ Against gout. M  
¶ Against gout arthritic/ take Aloe with juice of Arbana.   

¶ Against redness. N  
¶ Against redness/ and against rotting of the prive membres. Meddle Aloe with vinegar/ and it will help. Aloe broken in rose water it good against itch of the eyes. Against swelling of the ears/ cleave the herb and put therein common & roast them a little upon the fire and lay them hot on the sore and it will help greatly.    

¶ De ligno Aloes Cap. two.  
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ALoes is a wood and is hot and dry in the ii degree. This wood is found in a flood of high babylon nigh whereby runneth a river of Paradyse terrestre/ and s●me say that by the swiftness of the same river that wood is brought thither. Other say that it groweth on the hills and deserts afore said/ and by force of the wind/ and by age of the trees it falleth in that river/ and the dwellers by the said river far fro the said hills do cast nets in that water and take up this wood. There been iii manners of this wood/ one is found in an island called Cume/ and that is the best of all. There is in another isle called Tamear/ and is not so good: The other is in an isle called Exanne/ and that is the worst. The first is known because it is heavy full of knots/ and smelleth sweet/ and hath a bitter savour/ and the colour is black or like russet. The second kind of Aloes is not so heavy/ nor so bitter/ nor so well smelling/ and is less in virtue. The iii is some what white and is not bitter/ and hath no savour but if it be made by craft/ and it is called seruleun. The tree Aloes is counterfeit in the mountains of a country called Almaphea with a wood or tree named Camelia/ like unto lignum Aloes/ for it is heavy/ knotty/ and of sweet smell and some call it wild Aloes. This wood is rubbet with tin or lead to make it change colour/ & ear wax is put on it to make it bytted/ and that it look russet. Than it is boiled in wine/ wherein is powder of good Aloes with musk to make it smell sweat/ & thus it is so turned that scantly it is known from the good Aloes. But there is difference/ for it is hard under the teeth and when it is chewed that that is within hath no bitterness.  

¶ To comfort the stomach: A  
¶ The wood or lignum Aloes comforteth the stomach and maketh good digestion It is good against the feebleness or the heart and of the brain. Against the cordial passion and two wnynge/ and against the flowers retentive in women/ and against all the passions of the heart coming of cold. The drink that lignum aloes is sudden in comforteth the cold stomach and warmeth it/ And if the decoction be to bitter lay the wood aloes in wine all night/ and in the morning drink the wine/ also the decoction thereof with avens/ and mastic procureth digestion/ & comforteth the stomach and brain. For them that been to delicate. Take ii drams of lygnun aloes & clowes/ & lay them in wine one night/ & drink the wine in the morning with rose water. Such wine may be kept long in virtue by reason of the Aloes.   

¶ For the brain. B  
¶ Against swooning and feebleness of the brain. Take Syrup with powder of lignum Aloes/ the bone in a hearts heart/ clowes/ and roses/ and seethe them all together with sugar. fumigation made of lignum Aloes and given to a woman beneath provoketh the flowers/ and helpeth the suffocation of the matryce/ and it behoveth the woman to be wrapped with clothes that the same come not in her nose. Inlykewyse Tryfera magna is a confection/ which taken with wine/ that hath be sudden with lignum Aloes provoketh the flowers. Or else take Trifera magna first/ and than the said wine. The smoke of lignum Aloes comforteth and heateth the cold brain and all the weak membres of the body.    

¶ De Auro. Gold. Ca iii.  
AVrum. Gold is the most attempeted of all metals. Howbeit it is hot/ but the heat is mean without excess/ therefore it is put in no degree. Gold is made of a vain of the earth 〈◊〉 decoction or melting/ and by the same decoction the superflue is divided and is called Cucuma auxi/ the scum of gold.   man pouring something from vessel onto table 
¶ We will not as now determine how many manners of Gold there be/ nor how they be known.  

¶ Against elefance. A  
¶ Gold hath virtue to comfort & to cleanse/ and therefore it is good against elefance/ that is a spece of lepery. Against the cordyake passion/ the mylt/ and cold of the stomach.   

¶ Against the falling evil: B  
¶ The filing of gold is good against epilence the falling evil. Take in meat or drink/ & it cleanseth the superfluities of corrupt humours. & against the same sickness it may be taken with a confection called Gerologodion/ or with Theodoricon/ anacardinch/ or ii times in drink and it profiteth to preserve fro dertres & serpigo.   

¶ Against syncopis●m. C  
¶ The filing of gold with the juice of borage and powder of the bone of a hearts heart/ and sugar/ helpeth to syncopisans.   

¶ Against swooning D  
¶ To them that been disposed to swoon be given Syrup made of juice of borage and sugar with powder of the bone of a hearts heart/ and fyling of gold.   

¶ For the milt. E  
¶ The drink that hath had reed hot pieces of gold quenched therein helpeth to splenetykes that been seek in the milt/ and he that hath no gold take gads of stenle.   

¶ For the cold stomach. F  
¶ Against cold in the stomach. Take the filing of gold in meat or drink. Cauteres made with instruments of gold helpeth more than any other metal.   

¶ Against spots in the eyen. G  
¶ The powder of the scum of gold taken by itself taketh away the spots in the eyen/ and the freting.   

¶ Against scale of the heed. H  
¶ An ointment made with the powder of scum of gold and oil taketh away the scale fro the heed and the face. ¶ It may be demanded how gold doth comfort/ sith it is not digested/ and entereth not in to the substance of the body & nourisheth not ¶ For solution hereof. It is to wite that of things that comfort/ some comfort only/ by cause they repair the spirits as things that smell sweetly/ other comforteth by cause they restore the membres as meat and drink. Other restrain the lose membres/ as plasters of mastic Other take away the ill qualities/ and feebleth the limbs as the ointment and plaster Dyaterciscos' that coforteth the stomach feebled by cold. The oath by expulsing the superfluities that causeth feebleness/ as medycyns' laxatives/ and many other things avoiding superfluities & of that manner is gold/ for by his spirit it withdraweth the superflue moistness.    

¶ De Argento vino. Quick silver. Ca iiii.  
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ARgentum vinuum/ which is called Quick silver and is hot and moist in the four degree. It is hoot/ approved by effect/ for it is dyssolutyfe/ incysife/ and penetratyfe/ but by cause it is found actually cold/ therefore some auctors saith that it is cold/ and some say that it is made of a vain of the earth by decoction/ but that is falls/ for as soon as it feeleth the fire it gooth away/ & turneth to smoke It is engendered in the earth as it is/ and cometh out of the earth as running water. Who that will keep it long must keep it in a vessel in a cold place. It hath virtue to dysolue/ and to waste.  

¶ To slay lies. A  
¶ For to slay lies take meal of a bitter grain or seed called Lupinus or beans of Egypt/ and seethe them in vinegar till it be thick/ than put thereto half an ounce of quick silver slecked or quenced & there with anoint the lowly heed. It ought to be quenched with spotell or rubbed w●●● ashes and spotells/ or with a dried bone● spotyll/ and that is best/ for if it were not quenched so it could not be meddled with other thing. It ought not to be put in any thing that is actually hot/ for it would consume to smoke and the smoke noyth them that been night it/ for it causeth palsy and softening of sinews. ¶ Quick silver taken in the mouth or eeres sleeth in destroying the membres. And he that hath taken it by the mouth use great quantity of gootes milk/ and be continually stirring/ or let him take drink that ysope hath been sudden in/ and those been the remedies   

¶ Against scabs. B  
¶ Against scabs/ take oil of nuts/ & heat it a little without meddling of vinegar/ than take lethargy that is scum of silver/ and put to it powder of seruse and seethe them till they be thick as honey and when it is cold put quick silver to it and so occupy it.   

¶ To slay lies. C  
¶ Quick silver confect with hens grease/ and ceruse cleareth the face anointed therewith/ or else take belliculis marinis with oil of roses/ ceruse/ & hens 'gree melted on the fire put thereto/ and afterward quick silver quenched with ashes and spottyll put thereto & kept to that use.  
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¶ Assa fetyda. Ca: v.  
ASsa fetyda/ that is stinking is hot and dry in the iiii. degree It is gomme of a tree that groweth beyond the see/ and is gathered in the summer. It may be kept long without corruption. It ought to be kept in a meetly dry place. The more it stinketh the better it is. It hath virtue to consume/ to dry dissolve/ and to spread.  

¶ For asmatycke. A  
¶ fine pylles made of assa taken only with a rear egg at night profiteth moche to asmatykes caused of moisture/ or else taken with syrup of vyolettes.   

¶ Against fever quartain. B  
¶ Against the fever quartain or quotidian/ for purgation take .v. drams of assa sudden with wine in a hollowed rote called Malum terre/ than strain it and put thereto honey or sugar/ and afore the hour of the fever make a suppository only of assa fetida anointed with oil/ butter/ or honey for hurting. It provoketh marvelously the flowers to women and causeth them to deliver child lightly if it abide.   

¶ For the milt. C  
¶ Ointment made of assa of armoniac and wax softeneth the hard milt/ and dissolveth the milk crudded in the paps.   

¶ For tooth ache. D  
¶ Assa put in a hollow aching tooth appeaseth the ache.   

¶ Against the belly. E  
A gargarism made of vinegar and water where as assa and roses hath been sudden delayeth the belly that is swollen.   

¶ For the palsy. F  
¶ Against palsy/ podagre/ gout arthritic epilence/ and against all vices caused of cold humours/ take assa/ patraclum and oil of a spyc molten on the fire/ than meddle powder of a brooks stones/ castorium/ & quick brimstone/ and put thereto sufficiently of wax/ and lay it to the seek place/ or else anoint it therewith/ and if it be of the stomach/ anoint the place therewith or if it be any place inward or outward anoint it with the same.    

¶ De Agno casto. Tutson. Ca vi.  
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AGnus castus. Tutson is hot & dry in the third degree. Tutson is a tree whose leaves and flowers been put to medicine and not the roots/ but the flowers been better than the leaves. It is found green at all seasons/ and groweth more in wete and watery places than else where. The flowers been gathered in harvest and may be kept in virtue green and dry It is called Agnus castus/ chaste lamb/ for it keepeth a man chaste as a lamb/ and withdraweth lechery/ if a bathe be made of it/ and wash the genytoryes/ and step them in the warm water of the same and the juice thereof drunken.  

¶ Against shedding of nature. A  
¶ Against sickness named gomorrea that is when the nature of a man issueth against his will. Take Agnus castus/ and castorium/ and seethe them together and let them be drunken/ and seethe the flowers in vinegar/ and lap or plaster the genitors therein/ and put castoreum thereto/ if ye will And it is to wite that divers things delayeth lechery because they thycken the nature of man/ as Letuce/ Psillium/ Cytrulle. Gourds seed. Poppy/ vinegar/ Vertynce camphor/ and such other.  
¶ Some other mynysshe lechery because they resolve/ and wast the spirits of the body/ and the nature/ as Rue. common Calament. Anne's/ for they been hot and great appertynes/ & destroyeth vento●yte.   

¶ Against dropsy. B  
¶ Tow drams of Esula and fennel seed in good quantity/ sudden with Agnus ca●stus/ and strained/ is good given to him that hath dropsy called Leucoflumance/ & the drink wherein it is sudden helpeth him also Lay Agnus castus in lies of oil till it be rotten/ than seethe it in strong w●ne and strain it with oil and wax/ and m●ke an ointment and that helpeth against hardness of the milt.   

¶ For the matryce C  
¶ fomentation made of the water wherein it is sudden drieth the superfluities of the matryce and cleanseth the entering.   

¶ To provoke flowers to women. D  
¶ To provoke the flowers in women make fomentation of the decoction of this herb and of centurum galli an herb.   

¶ For lethargy or forgetfulness. E  
¶ Against lethargy make decoction of tutson/ of smalache/ and of sawge/ in salted water/ and wash the hinder part of the hee● therewith.    

¶ Alom: Ca seven.  
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Alum is cold and dry in the third degree. Some say that alom is a certain earth that groweth in Cycill/ other say that it is a vain of the earth that by great decoction of heat is changed in to white colour and so is made alum/ and it is made in hot regions specially in places of sulphur and fire/ & it is of sharp savour if it be meddled with spottyll. That which is earthy and foul is nought. It may be kept long in goodness/ it hath virtue to waste to consume & to dry.  

¶ For a canker. A  
¶ Against canker/ powder of Alum and unsleked lime confect with fat earth is good or else wash it first with vinegar/ & put therein a tent anointed with the said confeccyon/ or a tent of powder of alum laid on it.   

¶ For the gomes B  
¶ Against swelling of the gomes wash them first with vinegar and alum confect together/ but first set ventoses wt●raryfycacyon on the neck and shoulders/ or seat the ventoses in the hinder part of the heed/ and skaryfye it iii days/ than lay bloodsowkers called horsleches to the gomes/ and wash the gomes with vinegar/ wherein alum/ nutgalles/ and roses hath been sudden/ and with the same vinegar wash the mouth three or four days twice or thrice a day/ and it will do ease.   

¶ For scabs. C  
¶ For scabs take quick brimstone/ lethargy/ and alum/ and seethe them in vinegar and nut oil/ wash the sore place with warm water/ and anoint it.   

¶ For the dropsy. D  
¶ For them that have the dropsy or sleeping limbs/ or artetyk/ or scabs. Boil Alum in water/ and take reed hot stones out of the fire and put them in a tub/ and power the said water upon them and let the patient be in the smoke thereof and wash him with that water till he sweet.   

¶ For a canker E  
¶ For a canker in what part it be take the bigness of a nut of Alum/ half a glass full of honey/ and a pint of reed wine/ & meddle them together/ and seethe them to the three part/ & strain them through a cloth and wash the sore often: Probatum est.    

¶ De Apio. Smalache or stammarche. Cap. viii:  
THere be divers manners of Apium or Smalache/ as shall be showed here after/ but we speak of the common. first it is hot in the beginning of the third degree/ and dry in the mids of the same. It is a common herb/ the sede thereof is most of virtue/ the rote is next/ and than the leaves. And therefore when it is found in recepts. Recipi apij that is take smallage without addition  depiction of plant the seed is to be taken. It hath divers names/ as Apium sillinun Albal Carasis/ or Sa●carpsi.  

¶ For strangory. A  
¶ The juice of smallage sudden with Saxifrage is good for them that have the strangory/ and piss drop by drop/ & for them that have dyssury and may not piss/ take the same drink in the morning with Mel Solaris. Phylipendula/ and seethe them together and strain them/ than put thereto sugar and make a Syrup/ and drink it.   

¶ For stoppy●ge of the liver. B  
¶ juice of Smalach● sudden with Tamaryke unstoppeth the oppilations of the liver/ and of the milt. Or else seethe roots of smallage/ parcyly● fennel & drink it.   

¶ For Ianu●●s. C  
¶ For janudys/ ca●● of oppilation do make a Syrup of the juice of Smalache and fennel sudden with juice of Fumoterre/ and sugar/ and that destroyeth the phlegm. For them that have the dropsy called Lencoflemence or Yposarea. Take a pound of the juice Smalache and an ounce of mastic/ seethe them together/ and strain them and put thereto sugar/ and make thereof a Syrup/ and in the end of the decoction put thereto two ounces of Esula/ and half an ounce of rhubarb/ and in the morning drink it with warm water.   

For frenasy. D  
¶ Against frenasy/ the juice of Smalache/ vertince/ or vinegar/ oil of vyoletties/ or roses/ put together in a vessel of glass over the fire/ and hot lay it to the patient's heed/ but first shave it.   

¶ For fever quotidian. E  
¶ For fever quotidian or daily ague/ make a purgation/ than seethe Agaryc with the juice of Smalache in the apple of coloquintida called a gourd of Alexandre/ or in a rote called malum terre/ or swines breed/ and with the water and decoction give it to the patient: ¶ It is to be noted that Smalache is not good for women with child/ for by the might of it/ it breaketh the strings that the child is bound within the matryce. It noyeth the Epylentykes that fall/ for it moveth the matters and humours/ and causeth them to mount in to the upper parties. There is another manner of Smalache called Apium ramium/ wild smalache. Also there is Apium risus/ and Apium Emorroidarium/ and all been smalaches.   

¶ For the back. F  
¶ Apium ramium sudden in wine and oil/ laid to the reins/ and belly appeaseth the ache/ and the strangury/ and it is called Apium/ by cause it is good for the reins and by cause it groweth there as ranes be that is froggys'. ¶ The said plaster is good for ache of the guts.   

¶ For costiveness. G  
¶ Against costiveness/ the flower of this herb sudden in water with grain of Corn minister with glister.   

¶ For the milt. H  
¶ Against pain of the milt/ make Syroyne with the juice hereof/ of wax & oil. ¶ Smalache called Apium risus/ or crowfote laid in wine and oil to rot/ and than strained meddled with wax maketh an ointment   

¶ For melancholy. I  
¶ This ointment doth great ease to sickness of the spleen caused of melancholy and therefore it is called Apium risus/ for it wasteth the melancolic humours coming of abundance/ whereof followeth heaviness/ and his absence lessed followeth the contrary/ that mirth/ and by consequence risus that is laughter/ & therefore it is said Splen ridere facit. The milt causeth to laugh/ for it cleanseth the blood of humour melancolyke.   

¶ Against strangury & dyssury. K  
¶ Apium risus sudden in water or in wine is good against strangury/ dissury & esurie Also the decoction thereof alone availeth chiefly against the stone. The lactuary called Litiontipon given with decoction of apium risus/ provoketh the flowers in women. And let fume be made under or else the juice put warm in to the matryce. Some say that if it be taken at the mouth it sleeth a man in laughing/ and it is found in certain books that if it be taken inward it sleeth a man. And I platayre have seen by experience some that hath taken it/ and it hath done them great lesion:   

¶ For Emorroides or piles. L  
¶ Apium emorroidorun. This herb sudden in wine laid to the place drieth the hemorrhoids or piles that benswollen. But it must not be done when they bleed or run. The powder thereof also is good for the same.    

¶ De Apio ramio/ wild smalache: Cap. ix.  
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APium ramium groweth in water/ some call it wild smallage Of his virtue is written afore in the common smallage.   

¶ De Apio risus/ Crowfote or ache. Cap. x.  
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APium risus groweth in sandy places & gravelly ground/ some call it botracium/ other corar/ other julien/ other statice/ other articoris other cloropis/ other rasselmo/ other effistion/ other litopon/ other bellivagero other buccon/ other herba scelerata/ & other apium risus ¶ This herb brayed in a mortar with swines dirt made in plaster laid upon bocce closed and anon it will break/ it may be gathered at all times:   

¶ De Apio Emorroidario. Ca xi.  
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APium Emorroidarium/ is other wise called botracium staticere some call it uran/ & other call it cutrada. It groweth in sandy places in the fields/ the roots is like vermelond. Of his propriety & virtue is spoken in the chapter of comune smalache.  

¶ For lunatic people. A  
¶ This herb is good for lunatic folk if it be bound to the patients heed with a linen cloth died reed the moon being in cresaunt in the sign of Taurus or Scorpion in the first part of the sign/ & he shall be hole anon. ¶ Against Cycatryces that been spots or seems/ that been after wounds remayny black/ take & stamp this herb with the roots and strong vinegar/ and lay it on the spots or seems/ and it will cleanse them/ and take away the ill flesh/ and he'll them.    

¶ De Amido. Ca xii.  
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water mill AMidum is attemprement hot & moist/ and is made in this manner/ put wheet to step in cold water night and day/ and stir it every day till it seem all rotten/ than take i● out of the water/ and bray it well and small/ & put thereto cold water as ye did before Than strain it and set it in the son till the water be out/ and that it be very dry/ than renew it with water many times that it may be white. Than let the water be pured/ and the thickness in the bottom laid to dry and harden/ & that is amidun Also it is called Amilum/ because it is made without a mill/ and it may be also made with clean barley.  

¶ Against aposteme. A  
¶ This Amidum is good against the apostumes of the membres of life as the heart and the longs that been they that be closed under the rib within.   

¶ Against the cough. ●  
¶ Also it is good against the cough if 〈◊〉 be sudden in water of barley with Almond milk/ and penycles put thereto.    

¶ De Antimonio: Ca xii.  
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ANtimonium is hot and dry in the fourth degree. It is a vain of the earth moche like to metal and specially to tin/ but it is known fro metal because it brenneth/ and is easily bruised/ and so is not metal. Antimonium burneth in the fire and metal melteth The clearer that Antimonium is the better it is The powder thereof confect with french soap/ and anointed therewith is good in the hole of a fistula.  

¶ Against canker. A  
¶ The powder thereof laid on a canker wasteth the deed flesh/ and is a good remedy.   

¶ Against polipe. B  
¶ Against polipe that is flesh overgrown in the nostrils/ make a magdalion that is a thing round and long/ & make it of apostolicon/ that is a plaster so named and lay powder of antimonium thereon/ & put it in the nose.   

¶ For the spot in the eye C  
¶ Against the spot in the eye make a colire that is a clear thing that is set in the son. It is made with antimonium and kernels of mirabolani alike much with rose water/ and thutye among with powder of antimonium upon it.   

¶ Against bleeding of the nose. D  
¶ Against bleeding of the nose/ wete cotton in the juice of bursa pastoris/ and cast powder of antimonium upon it/ and put it in the nose thrills.   

¶ For emorroides. E  
¶ This powder confect with taxsus barbatus/ and cotton were therein laid on the emorroides drieth them. Or else put the juice of pancedanun that is dogfenell with a clystre inward. If the emorroides be with out lay the powder on them/ if they be with in lay the powder with a spoon/ and a bladder full of wind. The powder of hellebore that is pedellion is as good for this medicine as powder of antimonium.    

¶ De Achasio/ juice of Sloes or bolays. Cap. xiiii.  
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AChasia is cold and dry in the second degree. It is the juice of sloes unripe and wild/ and is made thus. The sloes been gathered or they be ripe/ and the juice taken pressed away/ and dried in the son. This juice so dried is called achasia. It may be kept a year/ and it hath virtue to restrain & to comfort  

¶ For vomit: A  
¶ Against vomit/ colic/ and feebleness of virtue retentive eat/ ache/ mommye/ dragantum/ and gum arabic/ tempered with white of an egg and fried in a pan of iron/ or else make a plaster thereof and lay it to the bought of the breast/ or else make crespes with rain water/ or of rose water.   

¶ Against flix of the belly B  
¶ Against flix of the belly/ temper it with wine and give it to drink/ the same may be made against the flux of women. Or take achasia/ the stone emachites/ & ypoquistides/ and let them be confect with rain water/ or water of roses and so given.   

¶ For bleeding at the nose C  
¶ Against bleeding of the nose/ or flux in women/ make a suppository or tent of achasia/ and juice of bursa pastoris. And for the flowers in women clay or armoyst be put to the said things/ or else meddle tansy/ achasia/ and juice of plantain/ & make a suposytory/ as it is said.   

¶ For vomit. D  
¶ For vomit and flux of the belly/ make a plaster of achasia/ dragon's blood/ mastic/ oil of roses/ and white of an egg   

¶ Against hot apostome. E  
¶ Against hot apostome/ take Achasia tempered in juice of plantain or any other cold herb & laid to it at the beginning.    

¶ De Agarico. Ca xv.  
AGaricus is hot and dry in the second degree. Agaryk is an excrecens that groweth nigh to the rote of a sapyn tree/ in manner of a mussheron and specially it groweth in Lombardy/ and there been two kinds of them/ the male and the female/ but the female is best/  depiction of plant and hath a round shape & is very white The male hath long shape/ and is not so white. The female is bitter and holow● within as pieces divided/ the male is not so/ and is mightier/ but sometime his lightness cometh of rottenness/ and that is seen for it powdreth in breaking. It may be kept four years. It purgeth phlegm and melancholy.  

¶ For fever cotidian. A  
¶ Against cotidian of phlegm natural seethe agaryc with other spices as squinant and use the decoction. Another remedy is after that the patient is purged if the fever cease not/ meddle an ounce of Agaryc 〈◊〉 as much juice of fume terri/ and use it three or four hours afore the axes/ many have been healed by this only medicine.   

¶ Against yliake passion. B  
¶ Against ylyake passion/ the same medicine is good/ or make it thus/ let the patient have a clystre mollyfycatyfe/ than take an ounce of Agaryk with honey & oil and some water mytygatyfe and make a clystre.   

¶ For strey●nesse of pissing. ●  
¶ Against dyssury/ take saxifrage & seethe it in wine/ and strain it/ and in seething put thereto half an ounce of Agarycke and use it.   

¶ Against fistula. D  
¶ Against fistule take salt/ cost/ gravel of wine/ and agaric/ and make thereof a small powder confect with honey/ & wet a tent therein/ and put it in the sore. This draweth out broken bonies it wasteth the ill flesh and healeth the fistula:   

¶ Against hemorrhoids. E  
¶ Against hemorrhoids/ take powder of agaric very small meddled with juice of Cyclamen warmed by the fire/ wete cotton therein and lay to the sore place.   

¶ Against morphew. F  
¶ Against morphew take the said powder with bay salt/ and lay on the place/ but first wash it with decoction of agaryk castoreum/ and squynant/ with this the heed ache is appeased caused of abundance of phlegm/ and comforteth the stomach Or make pylles with juice of fennel or hallelujah/ that is sorrel de boys or cukowes mete.    

¶ De Aneto. Dyll. Ca xvi.  
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ANet is hot and dry in the second degree/ the sede thereof is best in medicine and therefore when Anet is founden written only/ it is to wite the sede/ the rote is little worth: It ought to be gathered in ver/ and may be kept three year/ but it is better renewed every year. The decoction thereof is good for them that may not piss/ and for them that been dainty give lycotupon in syrup with sugar/ & for children make a plaster upon the neither part of the belly.  

¶ For the matryce. A  
¶ For dolour of the matryce/ boil two fayssiaus of anet in strong wine/ & laid on the low part of the belly/ or with the leaves boiled in strong wine/ be made a suppository/ and that withdraweth the superfluities of the matryce/ and causeth the flowers to void.   

¶ For hemorrhoids: B  
¶ Against hemorrhoids/ take powder of nettles/ and powder of anet meddled with honey/ and said it thereto/ and anoint it/ or else anet and powdre of nettles sede/ and lay them on plasterwise/ and if they run lay the powder theronf/ or it stoppeth/ and if the veins be swollen meddle the powder with honey/ and white of an egg and lay it to/ decoction of anet and mastic helpeth against vomit caused to cold/ and against bleeding of the nose if it be put in the nostrils. It comforteth the stomach in what manner so ever it is taken/ chawed alone/ sudden in pottage/ or with flesh/ or in drink/ and likewise it comforteth the brain.    

¶ De Affodillio/ Affodylly. Ca xvii.  
AFfodylle is an herb that hath three manners. It is called affodyllus/ centum capita/ and albucium  depiction of plant / and some call it portus cerinus/ The greeks do call it aspilidos/ the moors call it poliortis/ other call it buburicus/ other rabdion/ other asucus/ & other ampularia. This herb is hot and dry in the second degree. It hath leaves like leek blades/ the rote is better in medicine than the leaves/ and is better green than dry/ in the rote is as it were a donnes' heed/ diuretyke/ and hath all the virtues that is spoken afore of Anet/ except that it is good against the evil called tettres alopyce in this manner  

¶ For tettres alopyce. A  
¶ Take honey bees brent and made in powder/ and meddle it with juice of the said rote & it will be an ointment convenable for it.   

¶ For strangury. B  
¶ Against strangury/ dyssury/ take iii ounces of affodylles with a drama of saxifrage/ and a dram of millefolis/ or yarow/ powdered and sudden eyl the three parts be wasted/ than let the patient drink it with sugar.   

¶ For dropsy. C  
¶ Against dropsy/ the middle back of elder/ and philipendula or dropwort/ of each iii drams sudden in iii ounces of juice of affodil/ and give to him that is seek specially if it be dropsy called leucoflemance.   

¶ For the eyen D  
¶ Against the sickness of the eyes/ take half an ounce of saffron/ & an ounce of mierte/ and seethe them in half a pound of good reed wine/ till half be wasted in a brazen vessel/ and it profiteth marvelously/ and is also good against tettres and alopyce.    

¶ Allium latin. Scordon vel scorded grease. Thaun Arabice. Gorlyke. Ca xviii.  
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ALlium is garlic. It is hot & dry in the middle of the four degree. Some say that there be two manners of garlic/ one tame and commune/ the other is wild/ and is called stordyon or rampsons/ and is hot and dry/ but less than the tame/ and it is not discussed of doctors the excess of the one and other. The wild worketh meanly/ and aught to be put in recepts and not the tame/ for the tame worketh impetiously we use the flowers of the wild/ & the aught to be gathered in the end of prymtyme/ ●●d be hanged to drey in the shadow. It m●● be kept iii year in goodness/ but it is better to have new every year. Of tame garlic the heed is occupied/ it hath virtue to withstand/ and put out venom.  

¶ For biting of venomous beasts. A  
¶ Against biting of venomous beasts take garlic/ and bray it and lay to the place/ also if it be eaten it putteth venom out of the body/ and therefore it is called churls treacle. B  
¶ Against worms in the belly/ take garlic/ pepper/ a little percely/ and juice of mints/ make of them sauce/ and wets your breed therein. For to open the veins of the liver/ and the conduit of the urine make sauce of garlic tempered with wine/ and herbs dyuretykes and use it.  
¶ Against strangury/ and dyssury/ and pain of the guts seethe garlic and make a plaster thereof and lay it on the belly nigh the yard. Garlic noyeth the sight for it drieth/ and it grieveth all the membres of the body if it be used out of measure for it engendereth lepery The flowers of wild garlic been dyuretykes and losing/ and who useth them in wine or other drink they been good against the strangury/ and dyssury. In the antydotary is little or nothing found of tame garlic in recepts/ but of the wild/ for it is more temperate.    

¶ Acorus. Gladon. Ca nineteen.  
ACorus is the rote of a water flag how be it/ it groweth not only in water/ but it is also found in high grounds. It is hot and dry in the second degree. Some call it affrodisius or veneramy/ or sigenciana/ or mutica. It ought to begadred in the beginning of summer & the husks without plucked away and than cloven in four parts & hanged in the son to dry that it rot not for the moistness thereof. It may be kept three year in virtue It hath virtue apperatyfe to divide and  depiction of plant dissolve. For the hardness of the milt and of the liver take a li of corus somewhat bruised and lay it three days & three hyghtes in vinegar/ than seethe it till the vinegar be half wasted/ than put thereto honey and seethe it again till the vinegar be all dried/ and than take oxmell with the decoction of acorus & take a li. of the juice of the powder & of the seed/ and half a li. of vinegar & of oil/ and half a li. of armoniac an ounce/ of a gum called serapelinx. two. unces'/ and lay them all night in vinegar & on the morning seethe it to half/ & than put thereto powder of acorus/ and with this ointment with thy hands anoint thee/ the liver & the milt that is to hard/ & if thou wilt make a cironie lay it to in manner of a plaster/ & the drink that it is sudden in is good for the same sickness/ but it ought not to be given to them that have the axcesse. ¶ Against the jaundysse seethe the rote of acorus in water & strain it & in the straining put thereto sudden chiches & give to the patient/ & that is a sovereign remedy if the patient be without ague/ if he have the ague/ make a bathe with the rote thereof if ye can find enough/ and if ye have not plente/ than put the powder of it in a bag/ and put it in the bathe.  
Or else seethe moche of acorus in water/ and set the patient over it well covered with cloth till he sweet/ that sweet purgeth well the hard phlegm.  

¶ For the web in the eye:  
¶ Against a thick spot or web in the eye called pannus. juice of acorus and fennel equally put in a vessel and set in the son/ till the moistness waste than put thereto powder of aloe and seethe it a little/ and strain it/ and put it in a vessel of brass/ and when need is put it to the eye with a feather/ and that cooleth the eye and so doth the leaves if they be laid thereto. And it is said if acorus is bound to a be hive the honey bees will not fleaway but increase and cause other to come thereto.    

¶ Armoniacum latin: A●o● grece. Fasaac Arabice. Ca xx.  
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ARmoniacum is hot and dry in the second degree/ it is the gum of a tree that is so named also the bows been hewed with small cuts undernether in summer days/ and out thereof cometh a liquor that hardeneth against the bows/ & is called armonyake. That is to be chosen that is most clear and why test/ and is not meddled with earth. Good armonyake is like the white of an egg but it is not so white. It hath virtue to lose/ to dissolve/ and to spread.  

¶ Against the old cough. A  
¶ Against the old cough and moist/ and against asma that is a cumbrance of the breathe caused of thick gleymy flewmes Take two or three drops of armonyake with honey/ or make pylles with honey and use them. But first let the breast be mollified with butter/ or line seed or with an herb called brauch a urtina or heresfote/ powned.   

¶ For the milt B  
¶ Against the sickness of the milt/ take armoniake/ and galbanum/ alike moche and soften them in vinegar with wax/ and put thereto powder of cost/ & of worm would/ and make a cyroyne or ointment and anoint the milt.   

¶ For worms in the belly C  
¶ For worms in the belly/ take armoniac with juice of wormwood/ or parsicaria. Arssmert. And for children that can take nothonge by the mouth/ take armoniac and juice of wormwood or arssmert with vinegar and make a plaster/ and lay it to the navel.    

¶ Anisum latin & grece. Aneisum Arabicer: any. Ca xxi.  
ANisum is hot and dry in the iii degree. It is also called sweet common/ and it is the s●de of an herb so called. It may be kept in goodness three years. It hath virtue to waste/ consume/ and undo.  

¶ For wind in the body A  
¶ Against wind/ & indygestyon/ wringing of the guts/ or crowling/ t●a●  depiction of plant drink that anys/ fennel/ and mastic/ hath been sudden in/ or else the powder of them with a little synamum/ and mastic unsoden. any is good against pain of the ears and the wind if the decoction thereof be laid to it with perytory.   

¶ For the ears. B  
¶ For the pain of the ear if it be caused of moistness/ put anise in the juice of lekes and a warm onion with oil/ and put it to the ear.   

¶ Against the matryce. C  
¶ Against the vice of the matryce/ trifera magna/ with decoction of anise/ and other diuretic herbs unstop the opilations of the liver/ and of the milt.   

¶ For hurt in the face: D  
¶ Against blackness or brusinge coming of stripes/ specially if they be in the face/ bray anise with common and meddle the powder with wax/ and lay to the place To make milk increase in a woman or seed to a man/ use powder of anis in meats or drinks/ for anise openeth the veins by his heat.    

¶ Absinthium latin. Grece absinthion. Saricon Arabice. Wormwood, Ca xxii.  
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Absinthium/ wormwood/ is hot and dry in the second degree/ some say that it is hot in the first degree/ and dry in the second There be two manners of wormwood/ one is called pontic/ because it groweth in an isle called Pontum/ for it hath a savour pontic or rank/ and is green of colour/ and bitter or sour smell. The other manner of wormwood/ is somewhat more whytysshe/ and not so bitter/ and is not of so great virtue as the other. It ought to be gathered in the end of ver/ and dried in shadow & may be kept a year. Wormwood hath two contraries. It hath virtue laxative toming of heat and bitterness/ and it hath virtue constiparyfe or stopping by heat ponticite It is said to be of tours or thick substance for savour pontic and bitter/ that is therein/ for bitter and pontic things have gross substance. Therefore who so taketh it inward if it find gross or thick matter it hardeneth and tycketh it more/ & by the beat of it/ it looseth/ spreadeth/ and wasteth the other humours that been thin and that it hath contrary operations/ and therefore it ought not to be taken but if the matter be digested/ that it may dyssol●e it by his heat/ and when it is dissolved that it may have it/ by his pontyfyce:  

¶ For worms. A  
¶ Against worms of the navel when they been in the bowels/ take juice of wormwood with powder of betony/ or centaury or percicaria/ or kyrnelles of peach:   

¶ For the liver. B  
¶ Against opilation of the liver & jaundys'/ take the juice of wormwood and scaryole/ or else make them in syrup/ and use it with warm water. ¶ Against opylation of the milt take juice of wormwood and powder of costi/ and it is also good against oppilation of the liver caused of cold ¶ For to provoke the flowers in women/ make a suppository of wormwood in oil of common or in oil mustelyn/ & that is better   

¶ For heed ache. C  
¶ Against pain in the heed caused of vapours coming fro the stomach/ take juice of wormwood with warm water.   

¶ For drunkenness. D  
¶ Against drunkenness/ take the same juice with honey and warm water.   

¶ Against hardness of the milt E  
wormwood sudden in oil chopped/ and laid thereto/ or make an ointment with the juice with vinegar & armoniac with wax & oil & anoint the place by the fire or in the son ¶ Against suffocation coming of cold/ take it with vinegar & warm water. If thou have doubt of appoplexi to lose the speech it is a sovereign remedy. ¶ Against paleness/ or ly●idyte coming of the body make a plaster with juice of wormwood powder of common and honey. ¶ Against worms in the ear/ drop of the juice therein. The juice drunken cleareth the sight. If it be put in the eye it taketh away the redness of the web called pannus. It keepeth gowns and books fromyce and worms ●●nde Diascorides. For to have the juice gather it in the end of may/ for to keep the herb gather it when the flowers spring/ lay it in shadow/ it will keep two year.  
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¶ Anacardus latin & grece. Ca xxiii.  
ANacardus is the fruits of a tree that groweth in inde/ some say that they been whelps of elephants but that is not true/ they been hot & dry in the third degree/ some say in the fourth. The heaviest & full of humours is best. They may be kept thirty. year/ & they ought to be kept in a place not to hot nor to moist/ if they be taken alone death followeth or leper.  

¶ For forgetting. A  
¶ Against forgetting seethe castorium in strong vineygre/ put thereto of the humour of anacarde & anoint the hinder part of the heed.   

¶ Against tettres: B  
¶ Against spreading tettres take orpiment confect with the juice of anacardes first wash the place & then anoint it/ but let it not lie to long for it will do great pain & make it hollow but the place often with hot water & anoint it often.   

¶ Against morfewe C  
take sauge wormwood/ And that is within colloquntid● or wild gourds put in powder & confect with the juice of anacordus. Or these things confycte in wine/ and sudden and made in plaster be laid thereto.   

¶ Against forgetfulness. D  
¶ A confection that is called Theodoricon anacardium where been the pryncypal medicines is good against forgetfulness & healeth the lepry.    

Amigdala latin. Lanet Arabice & grease. Almonds. Ca xxiiii.  
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AMigdala dulcis been sweet Almonds. They be hot and moist in the first degree. Galienus saith that these almonds have some bitterness but it is perceived when they begin to wax old/ and they been of the same action for nourishing of the body as nuts be/ and been strong and ill to digest/ because of their unctunsyte/ and they turn in to choleric humours/ but they be not so noisome to the stomach as nuts been. And therefore almonds taken between new & old/ be means between the very sweet and bitter. They cleanse the filth of the body of the lungs/ and of the reins/ and provoketh urine/ and unstoppeth the opilations of the liver/ and therefore the bitter been given in medicines/ and the sweet for nourishing. The oil of the sweet almonds is the best. The harder and whiter that they be/ when they should be eaten let them be blanched/ and dressed with sugar or honey. Grene almonds be more tender and soft by the moisture that they have/ and be more worthy than the old & dry/ but if the old were blanched/ and laid a night in warm water they would be fellows to the green in goodness/ & if the green be eaten or they have husks they comfort greatly the gums and sw●geth the heat of the stomach▪   

¶ Of bitter Almonds. Ca xxv  
Bitter almonds as Isaac saith/ been dry in the end of the second degree. They mollify thick and gross humours/ and therefore they cleanse the liver and the longs of phlegmatic humours and also open the opilations of the liver/ and wasteth the hardness of the milt and breaketh the great winds spread in the bowels named colon/ & provoketh urine and cleanseth the filth of the reins/ and of the matryce/ and putteth out the opilations. If they been blanched and brayed and made a pessayre they cause the flowers in women to run. ¶ Also they put the rotten humours out of the body and appease the pains in the belly/ and engendereth sleep/ and if they been given to drink with amidum/ and mints/ they help lightly the urine and destroyeth the stone And if they be tempered with vyneigre they take away the sickness fro the face/ if they be taken to drink with good wine they ease greatly against the long ague.  

¶ Against encumbrance of the breath. A  
¶ Against encumbrance of the breathe that is called asma/ and against cough caused of cold/ bray bitter almonds/ and make broth or pottage of them and put sugar to them to take away the bitterness.   

¶ Against deafness of the eeres B  
bruise almonds/ and between two leaves lay them under hot emers/ or ashes/ and than press out the oil/ and drop it in to the ears if the hearing be stopped or if any matter come out.   

¶ Against worms in the belly C  
put of the said oil on the meat with flower of bitter lupyns/ or make a plaster thereof and lay it to the navel. The flowers retained shall be provoked if pessayre be made of this oil and put within/ or make a suppository of tryfera magna with the same oil    

De Aristologia rotunda vel accaung vel carabuth latin. Ariston vel fetalogos arabice. Apiston vel pavodricia Grece. Smerewort or meek galingale. Ca xxvi  
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ARistologia/ hath two kinds/ the one round & the other long Each of them is hot and dry in the second degree. Some say that the drieth is in the third degree/ the round is best for use of physic/ and the rote better than the leaves. The rote is gathered or the herb bear flowers. The leaves and the flowers to guider have virtue to dissolve/ unknyt/ & waste/ & to put our venom. It is kept ii years.  

¶ Against venom and biting of venomous beasts A  
take the powder thereof with juice of mints the powder thereof wasteth deed flesh anon/ if a tent be made and wet in honey powder hereof cast thereon and put in a fistula destroy the deed flesh.   

¶ For a deed child. B  
¶ To deliver a deed child/ seethe this rote in wine and oil & make a fomentation ¶ Against trouble of the breathe caused of moist humour make a confection/ the two parts of roots of aristologia put to powder/ and the third of gencyan with honey ¶ Against the falling evil take round aristologia/ euforbium/ castoreum quick brimstone and make a decoction in oil petrolium/ or in oil mustelyn or at lest in common oil/ & therewith anoint the eydge of the back fro the neck downward. The powder thereof with vinegar healeth the smart of scabs.    

Aristologia longa latin. Reed mader. Ca xxvii.  
ARistologia longa is so named because the rote is long/ & slender: Some call it arratica/ other mel tarpon/ other ephesta/ other clesticis. The romans call it petritomis/ long aristologia hath the virtue of the round. Mater saith that it hath many good virtues ¶ gather great quantity thereof and dry 〈◊〉 and when need is make smoke therewith under the beds where seek children lie. At maketh the patient merry marvelously  depiction of plant and bringeth him to health. Also this smoke driveth all devyllysshnesse and all trouble out of the house. Also this herb green stamped & laid to where any thorn or iron is draweth it out.  

¶ Against the canker. A  
¶ For canker in the gums/ take this herb/ pepper/ the rote of gladon and myrrh/ and make powder of them and rub the gums/ and it taketh away rottenness.   

¶ Against pain of the milt and colic. B  
¶ Against pain of the milt and colic passion/ the juice thereof strained with water and given to drink. It openeth greatly the milt/ and wasteth the pain of colic. It helpeth paralytykes/ and undooth the ache of the womb.    

¶ Ambra latin et grece. Nambac Arabice: Amber Ca xxviii.  
Amber is hot and dry in the second degree. Some say that it is the spame of a whale. Other say that it is the secondyve that she causeth when she hath spawned/ but that is not true/ for it is an unpure thing/ & hath a sanguine  tree beside water colour/ and the good amber is white/ but who can find any that is grey it is the bes● the black is nought for it is counterfeit in this manner. A little amber is meddled with lignum aloes/ storax/ calamita/ laudane tempered with musk and rose water/ but the counterfeit is known from the good by cause it may be chaussed in the hand as wax/ but the good can not. It hath virtue to comfort and may be kept long.  

¶ Against fainting of the heart. A  
¶ Against fainting of the heart called symcopis/ make pills with a dram of amber/ and an ounce of lignum aloes/ and two drams of the bone in a hearts heart put in powder and bet in rose water and give ii or iii of the said pylles to the patient when he gooth to beed or to sleep.   

¶ Against the falling evil. B  
¶ Against epylent falling/ put amber and of the bone of an hearts heart in a vessel of glass in the fire on the coals/ & let the patient take the smoke at his mouth and nostrils:   

¶ Against the matryce. C  
¶ Against suffoca●yon of the matryce when it presseth the spiritual membres/ take amber in a vessel of glass with other sweet. smelling things/ or it only/ and let the smoke be received by the natural conduit of the woman/ and that same time let the woman have stinking things at her nose/ as it were a metche kindled in oil/ & than put out: The master saith that with the said smoke he healed a noble lady of the same disease. And it is to wite that against the falling of the matrice stinking things ought to be used beneath/ and sweet above/ and in the suffocation the contrary is to be had.    

¶ De Arthemesia. Mugwort or moderwort. Ca xxix.  
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ARthemesia. Mugwort/ is in three kinds. That is to wite the great/ the middle and the small/ but now we will speak of the great. It is hot and dry in the third degree/ and it is called the mother of herbs The romans do call it Regina/ other call it Texator/ other Ephesia/ other patermon/ other Apolyses other Arthemesia/ other Succosa/ other Lyopas/ other Vtropium/ other Cereste other Encacista/ other tronissis/ other bubastes/ ohert Obstancepon/ other emoromy/ other gomosestus/ other Phylateryon other Ferula. The Egypcyens call it Sabasar/ other Texobolus/ and other Canapacia. It groweth in sandy places on hills/ and in gardyns. It hath leaves toward white as an oak. Of this mugwort the leaves and the flowers behoveth in medicyn more than the rote/ and is better green than dry. It may be kept a year in bounty It is good against styrylyte or baraynnesse in a woman caused of dryth/ and it may be known well enough when it is caused of one or other by the complexion of the woman/ and if she be fat or lean/ And it ought to be given in this manner. Take powder of mugwort with the rote of an herb called bystorte/ and nutmyg/ of each alike moche/ than let it be confyct with honey in the manner of a lectuary/ and let it be used at morrow/ and even/ with the decoction of mugwort/ but it is better to make a bathe in water sudden with mugwort and laurel/ or else make fomentation upon the party of the matryce with the same decoction/ and for the same is good decoction of mugwort sudden in common oil or in nut oil  

¶ Against the flouts. A  
¶ Against the flowers withholden in women Make a pessayre of juice of mugwort/ or water that it is sudden in and laid to it.   

¶ For costiveness. B  
¶ Against ten asmon or costiveness caused of cold/ let the patient receive at his fundament smoke of colophenia laid on hot coals/ than heat mugwort on a tile/ and let the patient sit thereon. Probatum est.   

¶ For pylles C  
¶ Against piles that grow nigh the fundament called glans or atryces let them be opened/ and powder of mugwort/ and horehound lay on them.   

¶ For mygrym. D  
¶ Against pain of the heed called mygreyne or cephale give some hot opiate/ & the decoction of mugwort Macer saith he that beareth it on him in walking weryeth not. It is also good against ill thoughts/ and stopeth the eyes from harms/ and all devyllysshenesse fleeth fro the place where it is.   

¶ For pain in the belly. E  
¶ Against ache of the belly. Mugwort powned/ and lay thereto/ helpeth marvelously.   

¶ Against ache in the guts: F  
¶ Against ache of the bowels/ powder of mugwort drunken with honey easeth greatly/ and is good against many other sicknesses as Macer saith. ¶ To open the flowers in a woman/ give her to drink mugwort sudden in water. Also the smoke of mugwort provoketh the flowers if it be taken beneath. Also the drink that it is sudden in often drunken letteth not women be delivered afore their time/ and so doth the herb if it be laid to the navel. Also if it be bruised and laid to the matrice it breaketh and softeneth the hardness or inflation of it/ and hath many other virtues/ and is called arthemesia monodos.    

¶ De Arthemesia minor. Of the middle mugwort. Ca thirty.  
ARthemesia minor. The middle mugwort is called tagantes in Grece/ the domyens call it gryfauterius/ the romans tamnium/ the egyptians Rym/ other call it tamaryta & other canacipa.  

¶ For the bladder: A  
¶ Against ache of the bladder/ against strangury/ and dyssury take mugwort tagantes one dram/ and give it with half a pint of wine/ and give it to them that  depiction of plant have no fever with warm water/ and y● shall see good proof.   

¶ For the breast. B  
¶ Against pain of the breast/ and the rib bruise it with vinegar and lay to it/ and he shall be hole the third day.   

¶ For the sinews C  
¶ For the pain of the sinews/ seethe this herb in common oil/ and lay thereto/ it healeth and helpeth marvelously.   

¶ For the feet: D  
¶ Against pain of the feet/ if any hath been bruised or crushed/ eat the rote of this mugwort with honey and it easeth greatly   

¶ To make a child merry. E  
¶ To make a child merry/ hang a bondell of mugwort/ tagant or make smoke thereof under the child's bed/ for it taketh away annoy for them.    

¶ De Arthemesia minima called Leptyfilos/ the less mugwort. Ca xxxi  
ARthemesia minima/ leptyfilos is the less mugwort/ that other wise is called matrycary/ and hath a favour like clear when it is rubbed or bruised.  
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¶ Against the stomach. A  
¶ Against the pain of the stomach if it be caused of cold bray this mugwort green with oil of almonds warm in manner of a plaster/ lay it to the stomach and the patient shall be hole in .v. days. Also if it be laid under the door of a house/ man nor womann can not annoy in that house.   

¶ Against the sinews. B  
¶ Against ache of the sinews/ and shaking of the limbs/ anoint the limbs with juice of this herb meddled with oil of roses warmed. It taketh away all pains of shaking/ and all vices caused of cenmatyke humours that come to the sinews. ¶ It is to wite that Dyana found these three mugwortes/ and their virtues and she gave this same herb to Centaurus/ which proved the virtues thereof many times/ and therefore Dyana named it atthemesia. It ought to be gathered in may o● july.    

¶ Acetum latin Oxi veloxios great. Vyneyger. Ca xxxii.  
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ACetum vinegar is cold & dry● in the second degree. It hath virtue penetratyfe to pierce/ thryll/ and divide. And it hath virtue constructyve that cometh by his qualities that been cold & dry/ vinegar may be made thus Put wine in a vessel half: full/ and uncovered/ and it will become vinegar. Or else here steel or a stone/ and put it to the wine in an uncovered vessel and set it ii or iii days in the son with salt or else a vessel full of wine unstoped be well boiled in water. And if thou wilt know if the vinegar be good or bad/ shed some on the dry earth or upon iron & if it boil or froth it is good/ or else not.  

¶ Against vomit. A  
¶ Against vomit or flux of the womb ●e●he roses/ tamaryns/ and nuts of galls in vinegar/ and therein were wool or a sponge and if it be vomit lay it to the stomach/ and if it be flux lay it on the reins or on the navel. Also the syrup called siropus acetosus helpeth the single/ do●●le carcyan/ and quotidian/ salt phlegm/ and to all manner of agues/ if it be taken in the morning with warm water. The syrup eyg●e denyshed and quickeneth the matter and it is made thus/ melt sugar in vinegar/ and seethe it till it be meet for the case that ye will put it in/ and if ye will have it diuretic seethe it more/ the syrup of vinegar is good against hot matter/ and vinegar is good against cold/ for of vinegar and honey is made oxymell/ sometime simple/ and sometime compound The simple is made the ii parts of vinegar and the third of honey/ and it ought to be sudden till it be as tycke as honey. The compound is made thus. Take the roots of percely/ of fennel/ and smalache/ and burst them a little/ and lay them in vinegar a day and a night/ and on the second day seethe them together/ and strain them/ and in the vinegar also strained put to the third part of honey/ and than seethe it as the simple. oxymel squilliticum is made in this wise Take an herb called asquyll or water onion/ & lay it in water all a night and day/ than seethe/ and strain it/ than put thereto the third part of honey/ but the inside and outside of the asquyll must be taken away and the middle part used/ & if ye have no asquyll take a rape rote/ and do withal as it is afore said. oxymel simple or compost ought to be given against cold matter for it ripeth and digesteth it.   

¶ For the appetite. C  
¶ Vyneyger comforteth the appetite in this manner. Take sage/ percely/ pepper/ and mints/ and stamp them and temper them with vinegar/ & make sauce for fish. It will cause appetite/ & also flesh eaten with vinegar comforteth/ and giveth appetite. If vinegar be used with a full stomach it unbindeth/ the womb/ and with an empty stomach it bindeth it It is good for them that been weak of sickness in this manner. Toast breed and wet it in vinegar/ and with the toast/ rub the mouth the nose thrills/ and bind it on the pulsable veins/ for it comforteth the patient and the appetite. For the appetite it were better wet in the juice of mint.   

¶ Against lytarg. C  
¶ vinegar is good against lyterg/ and frenzy/ if it be rubbed to the feet and hands with salt/ and for the same if the bred shaven be washen with the decoction of vinegar and castoreum.    

¶ De alcamia. Alcamet Ca xxxiii.  
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ALcamia is an herb that is cold in the first degree and dry in the beginning of the second This herb is found in places beyond the see/ and specially in Cyril: And because it is not found in all countries/ they that have it make powder thereof and bear it in to divers regions. It hath virtue to cleanse and to make abs●ercyō to comfort and to ease It is good for to cleanse the heart in this manner. ¶ Who that will cleanse or unbind the heart/ the arms/ or other part of the body/ first go to the bathe and wash that part with warm water. Than take alcamia tempered with a white of an egg and vinegar/ and anoint it/ & a while after the anointing wash it again with warm water & wash you so iii days after. And it is to white that the places so anointed the first day will appear foul the second day lass/ the third day yet lass and on the fourth day fair and clear. In this manner is healed the morphew if it be curable. For to ease and help wounds it is good if it be put a lonely as in the ear/ the nose/ or in other places catilaginous or grystilles/ & if ye have no alcania powder of cinnamon doth the same.  

¶ To stain or die here. A  
¶ If ye will stain or die your nails/ or here/ or any other part in reed colour temper alcania in vineygre or water/ if ye will have black colour/ temper it with oil and anoint the place/ and than let it dry/ scarcely gooth the staining away but by juice of oranges or by the washing of the decoction of his own juice and vinegar if ye will stain it with yellow colour temper it with spattyll.    

¶ Auripigmentum vel arsenicum latin/ Harneth Arabice. payment Ca xxxiiii.  
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AVripigmentum is hooten & dry in the fourth degree. It is made of a vain of the earth/ it unbindeth/ departeth/ bindeth/ and cleanseth. Of anripigment or arcenicum is two manners reed and gelowe. The yellow is put in use of medicines.  

¶ For the breathe. A  
¶ Against letting of the breathe causeth of moistness/ lay orpiment upon hot emers & let the patient stoup down & receive the smoke thereof through a pipe or fennel. And for the same take iii drams of orpiment with a rear eggs or with wine or woman's milk/ ones or twice in a week.   

¶ For cough. B  
¶ For the cough take one dram with the afore said things with quick unsleked lime and orpiment is made psilocrun that is a medicine to take hear fro any place and is made thus. Take four drams of unsleked lime/ and quench it in water/ & put thereto two drams of orpiment/ and seethe them/ they been sudden enough when a ungh skin put to them may lightly be scalded or pilled with the hand. If ye will take the here away of any part of your body be in a warm place and anoint the part with the said medicine/ for else it would flay if it were washed with cold water or hotter than milk warm Some put thereto common and Aloe because it should not flay/ other to the third pate of orpiment/ and ii parts of commyne/ that it may take away the here more easily.   

¶ For tettres C  
¶ Against tettres spreading or not spreading/ take two parts of white soap or french soap/ and the third part of orpiment/ and make an ointment thereof and anoint the place/ but wash the tettre first & after with warm water/ or else it would frete the good flesh as well as the bad/ and thus wash iii or four times and this is good also for the white morphew and the black. If ye will have no here grow in certain parts of the body first pull them outh that grow there & anoint the place with oil of jusquiame or henbane/ and orpimet confyct together. Oil of jusquiame is made thus. Bray the seed of henbane and in the leaves roast it under hot ashes/ and than wrong out and this oil is good to be used. Or else seethe this seed with common oil/ and strain it. To make the nails clear/ take gum called serapinum/ and meddle it with powder of orpunent/ & therewith anoint them.    

¶ Aspaltum grece. Bitumen judaicum latin. Ca xxxv.  
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ASpaltum id est bitumen judat cum. It is a manner of earth that cometh fro parties of beyond the se● and Ind/ and is heavy and black in colour Some say that Aspaltum is made of the scum of a lake hardened with chalk in the which lake Sodom and Gomour perished. It hath virtue to ease/ to walte and to draw/ and it may be kept long. It is good for wounds if it the powder be laid to a wound dry/ be the wound large or long.  

¶ For the matrix. A  
¶ It is good also for the passions of the matrix taken downwards or upwards in this manner if the matrix press the breast or spiritual membres/ let the woman receive the smoke thereof at her mouth/ & if it be downwards or fallen let her take the fume at the orifice with a quill or fennel. It hath an abominable smoke/ & therefore it is good for this matter/ as it is said.   

¶ For the heed. B  
¶ It is good to purge the phlegm of the heed/ and for them that been sleepy/ and for them that have lethargy or slomering evil in this manner/ make powder of aspaltum and castoreum/ & make pylles with juice of rue and sawge/ and if need be dissolve one or two in juice of rue or in wine/ and be put in the nostrils the patient lying upright with an instrument proper therefore called nastale.   

¶ For ylyake passion. C  
¶ Against ylyake passion take an ounce of aspaltum powdered and put a night in oxymel squilliticum/ and in the morning strain it and make a clyster.    

¶ Acantum. Ca xxxvi.  
ACantum is an herb that some call pederon. It groweth in watery playces and dyches. The leaves been less than lettuce leaves and been hagged as fern/ and be very green drawing to brown. And the branch thereof is ii cubytes long/ and is big as a finger.  

¶ For brenning D  
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This hath some virtue against brenyng or scalding or fleeing/ if it be bruised and laid to the place. ¶ For to lose the w●●● be and to provoke urine/ put the rote of this herb in powder/ and drinketh it with warm water and that helpeth marvelously. It is good for them that have the tysyke/ or the cramp/ or shrinking of the sinews/ or oth●● membres   

¶ Against flux of blood B  
¶ Against flux of blood of the nose coming of some corrupt veins/ this herb eaten healeth the corruption of the vain/ and giveth help.    

¶ Adianthos. Maydenwede. Ca xxxvii  
ADianthos is an herb/ some call it gallitricum but the herb height politticum is an other herb/ this herb adianthos hath leaves like to coryandre/ and hath a stalk somewhat black and groweth in he●●es/ and we use the leaves in medicine 〈◊〉 not the row for it is good for nothing ●●●t hath virtue hot & moist in the first ●●gre.  

¶ For the ●ethe. A  
¶ For then that cannot draw their breath  depiction of plant but as it were by sighs/ and for the iaundys'/ and for strangury/ dysfury/ & to break the stone in the bladder. seethe adianthos in water/ and make syrup of the decoction with sugar/ and give it early at the spring of the day & let the patient drink half a pint of the decoction warm/ & this aught to be given to them that hath the ague with the said diseases/ & for them that have not the fever/ let the syrup be made with honey and be give wit● the foresaid decoction/ but in seething put thereto the roots of fennel/ smalache/ and sparge of burst or bonewort/ & give it with mine/ and thou shalt see marvels. Also it is good against oppilation of the liver/ & milt caused of cold. It provoketh flowers to women & stoppeth flux of the womb ¶ This herb adianthos bruised and laid plaster wise to the stomach ceaseth the pain forth with If it be bruised and said to the biting of a dog healeth it shortly/ & of this herb the grieve is better than the dried.    

¶ De agrimonia. Egrymony. Ca xxxviii.  
AStula regia is a herb so called It is good against evils of the mouth/ and against rotting/ If it be boiled in wine/ and the mouth washed therewith/ forth with the patient shall feel him eased of his pain.   

De Ambrosiana: Hyndhele. Ca xlii.  
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AMbrosiana is an herb like to eupatorium/ or wild sawge/ but it is not so long.  

¶ For the milt. A  
¶ Against opilation of the milt or dropsy/ at the beginning of the sickness/ or against worms in the womb the wine water that it is sudden in often times drunken healeth that disease if it come of engendering of cold humours.    

¶ De Asara. Ca xliii.  
ASara or Asarisi id est Brathea Some call it vulgago that is asarabacara/ it is hot and dry in the third degree: The wine or water  depiction of plant that it is sudden in provoketh urine/ and the flowers in women mightily/ and therewith it is good against the oppilation of the liver caused of cold matter.  

¶ For the milt & dropsy. A  
¶ It is good for the milt and dropsy/ & for the scyatyke passion it prolifyteth greatly. If it be taken in drink it availeth to the pains of the mattyre. It yieldeth good colour to them that have icteris or jaundices. Also it purgeth the womb/ and specially phlegm at the mouth/ and causeth vomit/ and is all most as violent to provoke vomit as white hellebore or peleter/ but it is not so strong. And therefore the nature of the patient that it shall be given to aught to be considered/ if he be strong/ his age/ if he be fat or lean/ & in what region he dwelleth. For it is more surely given to a fat man than to a lean and in a cold region than in a hot. And it ought to be given thus. Take thirty leaves of a sarabacara/ and lay them in wine all a night/ & on the morrow beat them well and give them to drink with the same wine or seethe them with fat pork/ and give it him to eat/ and drink strong wine after it if he will.  
This number of xxx leue● ought to be given to the strongest/ and to ●her after their age/ and strength. And i●●s to wite that when it is written in recepts asarabacara/ it is meant the roots and not the leaves/ but if the leaves be named expressly.    

¶ De Atriplice. Arache. Ca xliiii.  
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Atriplex is an h●●e named arache. It is cold 〈◊〉 the first degree/ and moy● 〈◊〉 the second/ Some call it Attrafax 〈◊〉 Atrapastis/ other crysolocamna. It is v●●n the kitchen to make pottage. It hath ●●ue to lose the womb/ and mollyfyeth 〈◊〉 hardness and healeth all opilations call●d of the said hardness  

¶ For the pearl in the eye. A  
¶ This herb put in plaster healed the pearl in the eye/ & causeth it to fall. Isaac saith that this herb nourisheth but little and the feeding thereof is watery and moist and is soon put out of the b●ot nevertheless it is good in medicine fo●● viscosyte thereof/ and therefore if it be c●●●ed and laid an apostumes it coolet● 〈◊〉 refresheth them. The seed thereof 〈◊〉 ●●orate/ and binding/ and it is good for them that have the jaundices by oppilation or stopping of the liver.   

¶ For vomit. B  
¶ Two drams of this seed with honey & warm water provoketh vomit in choleric persons.   

¶ Against sacer inguis. C  
¶ Against a sickness called sacer ignis/ or holy fire/ stamp this herb & lay thereto/ And against podagie or swelling sickness aching of the feet/ bray the herb with holly & vinegar/ it helpeth greatly.   

¶ Against iaundys'. D  
¶ For iaundys' as Galen saith the drink that it is sudden in is very good.  
¶ Also the water that the seed of arache is sudden in with the roots of rapes/ and a little vinegar drunken in great quantity purgeth the stomach of flowme and coier at the moche.    

¶ De anthera. Ca xlv.  
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ANthera hath a yellow flower. It is specially good against flix of the womb/ and overmuch vomit/ also it is good against the moistness of the luette that descendeth fro the heed/ if it be laid thereto with powder of canel  

¶ For the fundament A  
¶ For the small clefts that bleedeth in the fundament/ lay thereto powder of anthera/ or anoint them with water that dragagnat hath been chafed in. When a tooth is drawn/ and bleed to moche make a gargarism or water of liquor that anthera hath been sudden in with vinegar & wash your mouth therewith.    

¶ De Anchora. Ca xlvi.  
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ANchora is an herb called actoire/ It hath a little rote like the stone of a cock/ and is black without/ and hath a bitter smell/ and is bewray pantyke as calamus aromaticus/ It groweth on hills/ and deserts.  

¶ For the matryce.  
¶ For the pain of the matrix/ and of the stomach coming of cold cause Take the drink that it hath be sudden in/ or make powder of the rote and make electuary with honey/ and it will take away the pain/ & it sleeth the worms in the womb and is good against biting of a venomous be'st.    

De Auena: Oats. Ca xlvii.  
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AVena is an herb/ the sede of it is called oats it is cold & moist in the thyrse degree. It hath like virtue of barley meal or the grain thereof Take oatmeal groats clean tried/ & beat them in a mortar/ and put warm water by little and little thereto/ and strain it through a fine stamyn/ and seethe it till it be tycke. Than put thereto almonds milk and sugar a good quantity/ and it is good for them that hath hot and sore ague  

¶ For aposteme. A  
¶ This meat is good for them that hath apostumes in the inward membres/ & nourishing it ripeth apostumes/ and drieth the humours that harmeth.    

¶ Ameos. Woodnep/ or penny wort. Capitulum. xlviii  
AMeos: Pipe●●ul●/ca●●●●g●●stis ca●●●●g●●stis/●ur●umela/ all is one This herb is in two manners. ●eche of them hath one self virtue. The one is called the more because it hath gre●er le●●es/ but not that it hath more virtue/ the  depiction of plant less hath smaller leaves/ and groweth not very high and hath a better smell than the more/ for the more smelleth as pepper/ and that that groweth on the hills hath better smell than the other. It is hot and dry in the third degree. It provoketh urine that is with holden by gross humours. If it be drunken with honey it fleeth worms in the belly called cucubutyns. It looseth great winds/ and breaketh the stone of the bladder/ and warmeth the stomach/ and cleanseth the myseryke veins that gooth with the food to the liver/ and purgeth the reins/ and the matryce. If it be taken with honey/ it is good for the phlegmatic fevers and against biting of venomous beasts but it maketh the colour yellow/ if it be overmuch taken at the mouth or plasterwise.   

¶ De semine Amomi. Ca xliiii.  
AMomum is hot and dry in the third degree It is the seed of ●●s herb that height amomum.  

¶ For the matryce. A  
¶ If a woman having pain in the matryce  depiction of plant sit over water that amomum hath be sudden it peaseth the pain/ if pessayre be made of the said decoction/ it is good for the same/ and provoketh the flowers that been retained. The decoction where it hath be sudden/ is good for them that have epilence/ frenzy/ and podagre.    

¶ De Alleluya: Wood sorrel or cukowes' meat. Ca l.  
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ALleluya is an herb called cuckoos breed. This herb groweth in three places/ and specially in hedges/ woods/ & under walls sides and hath leaves like iii leaved grass and hath a sour smell as sorrel/ and hath a yellow flower/ & is put in an ointment marcyaton or marabraton because it comforteth the membres & loseth the humours and wasteth the pain of the sinews.   

¶ Acetosum latin. Huma Arabice. Oxiolapatium Grece. Sorrel. Ca li.  
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ACetosa sive acedula/ that is Sorrel/ this is an herb and hath leaves like to spinach but it is more like to a dock leaves/ and hath sedes like to it. It hath virtue cold and dry.  

¶ For itch. A  
¶ Acetosum is good for scabs and itch if the juice of it be put in syrup of oxymel made with juice of fume terri if it be eaten alone it destroyeth all scabs specially that that cometh of choleric/ and rotten blood Also the seed is good against long fever tertian and for many other things.    

¶ Auelana filberts. Ca: lii.  
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AVelane been filberts/ and been colder than hasyll pots/ their favour is more pontic/ and ●euy/ & more ●●cker than the small nots been and been of slower digestion and been later or the issue out of the body. They engender swelling of the belly/ specially if they be eaten with the rinds outward/ but if they be pilled they been of better digestion/ they be profitable for them that hath the old cough/ if they be bet with honey and eaten/ if they be roasted and eaten with a little pepper they be good against the rheum/ but if it be roasted & taken fasting it is good against venom. And if they be stamped with the outward husks and old grease of a sow or a bear they been marvelous good for them that have apolyce and that their hairs fast for this will cause that here to come up in the basde places.  

¶ To make a man lean. A  
¶ An anctour saith that he that is to fa●e and would be lain fell a pan full of fylberdes flowers and seethe them night and day/ and always put wine to them that they dry not/ that let the wine be strained/ and let the patient drink it .v. days in the month of february.    

¶ De Albatra. tormentil. Ca liii.  
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ALbatra is an herb and hath berries like cherries antifermacum/ and vicetoxium. This herb groweth a cubit high. It is put in the receipt of metrydall/ and agyynst the pains of the matryce.  

¶ Against venom. A  
¶ It is good against all venom and biting of venomous beasts/ we shall speak here after when we speak of vicetoxium.  
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¶ Aqua. Water. Ca liv  
AQua water/ the greeks call it ydro●/ the arabytes call it squīgihill. Master hippocras in his ●oke named de aexe/ and aqua saith that a man ought to have great consideration of waters that been used in meats & drinks/ such waters ought to be of good savour light in weight/ and clear in colour For he that drinketh troubled and heavy water comptly all his body swelleth fr● the heed to the feet/ and specially it corrupteth the milt/ and maketh ill humours in the body/ and therefore when water must he used in any medicine/ great consideration is to be had if the water be good o● bad. The masters say that water is not good to be drunken/ and specially to them that been of cold nature/ for water breedeth in them many accidental sicknesses and flux in the body/ as fevers and many other proceeding of moistness. Also women that been with child and drink water been delivered with great pain. Women that drink moche water been many times letted of their flowers in their time/ & sometime causeth them to run over moche/ wherefore their bodies been weyked and their heeds shake/ for drinking of water cooleth the brain. And therefore master Isaac saith that it is unpossible for them that drinketh overmuch water in their youth to come to the age that god hath or d●y●ed them. Also hippocras saith that rain water rotteth lightly/ and getteth & naughty sent/ because many waters been meddled together above in the air/ also the water that cometh of ice or snow is nought/ for if water beenes' frozen/ or turned to snow/ it will never return into the first nature or kind nor be so clear as 〈◊〉 was afore. Au●●●n in his fourth 〈◊〉 cura febrium faith that water may be given to drink to them that have the cold f●uers. ¶ If the fever come of the galen/ it behoveth to give him one only water in due time when the fevers hath left him that he neither feeleth cold nor heat that is when he tested. If he be hot or cold give him neither water nor wine for the fever should be nourished therewith. Aui●en saith in the same book that hot water freezeth sooner than cold/ Also he saith that cold water consumeth an humour coming fro the gall named humour choleric And he saith that water nourisheth not and that cold water ought not to be given to a seek person/ when the humours cesteth and been gross & undigested. Also he saith that man's food can not be arrayed and dressed without water/ and he saith that water of springs/ and running rivers been best/ & the ferder from the spring the better/ and he saith that the waters that been hoot in winter and cold in summer be the best of all & sudden water soonest entereth in to the body. And he saith in his first book, feu. in the first doctrine of the xiii. chapter that water may well be drunken when the matter is digested and the nature strong. And he saith in the same book that warm water is good to be used for colic passion and for swelling of the milt/ and warm water letteth the digestion and suageth not the thirst. And he saith that standing water and not currant noyreth the stomach. Also he saith the rain water that is gathered in summer when it thondreth and is boisterous wether is best to be used in medicine/ and rain water gathered and kept in other seasons letteth ye●oyce/ and stoppeth the breast. Galen saith in the seventh book called therapeutic in the second chapter saith that cold water Drunken noyeth the body/ and provoketh inward sickness/ & therefore it is good to be eschewed & also he saith in the first bock & first chapter named. De morte. that many folk that hath bathed them in cold was have died or they came home Diascorides saith that water sudden with barley or malt is profitable to man's body/ and at some time is good in medicine/ and therefore in all sicknesses that cometh of heat sudden water is good/ & against fever tercyen. And he faith that among all waters/ rain water is best because it is lightly digested of his kind/ and is soon hot & soon cold of his nature. And of all running springs/ those that spring against east and south been best/ but those that spring against the west been the worst/ & in likewise is many occydentall sicknesses/ and he saith in his book/ de aqua/ that all waters in their kind been cold and moist.   
¶ Tus endeth the chapters of herbs beginning with. A.   

¶ And here beginneth the chapter named with. B.  

¶ De Balfamo. balm tree. Ca l.  
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BAlsamus is an herb as some say but other say that it is a manner of a little tree/ and that is true as Dyascorydes saith and other that have seen it It groweth not past the height of two cubytes/ and it is found toward Babylon/ in a field where as vii wells or fountains be/ and is carried from thence/ It beareth neither leaves nor flowers/ and it is of troth that they do cut or slit the tree and rote a little & hang vyoles of glass at them and therein droppeth the juice of the said clyftes/ and so it is gathered/ and so is gathered every year well xl pound of that juice/ the which is called opobalsamum/ the tree is called balsamus/ the boughs felled and dried been called xilobalsamum. And this fruit can not be kept but three years for than it rotteth And the new & good is called carpobalsamum/ and that which is full of holes is all wasted by age. The xilobalsamum is kept ii years and than rotteth. And that which hath any gominynesse or slimy within when it is broken or bruised/ but if it be long kept though it powder not yet it is a token that it is lost with oldness. These two xilobalsamus/ and carpobalsamus have virtue to vouchsafe and to comfort/ bistopobalsamus hath a mighty virtue/ and is hot and dry in the second degree/ but because it is very dear it is counterfeited and fycte in divers manners. Some sell terbentyne for opobalme/ other terbentyne meddled with a little balsam to cause it have the same smell and likeness/ and so sell it. Other take the juice of the leaves of lemons/ and of citrons/ and mengle them with terbentyne and saffron. Other mengle oil of Nardyn or Spycke with terbentyne. Some auctors say that the true is known fro the countrefayt in this manner. Diascorides saith if ye put a drop of very opobalme in milk it will turn it to cruds. But there be many other things that will do so. Other say if a cinene thin linen cloth be wet in very opobalme/ and let's the cloth be clean washed/ and if there be not spot nor foulness in the cloth it is very good opobalsame If it be pure it is citrine or yellow and it is known fro the countrefayte in this wise/ put water in to a vessel and put opobalsamum in to it and stir the water with a stick or other thing/ and if the water trouble not it is very opobalme/ and if it trouble it is counterfeit. Or else put pure water in a clean vessel of silver or other/ and put a certain weight of opobalme in a very fine clean thin linen cloth/ and wash the cloth in the water and if it be counterfeit/ the good will go to one side as quicksilver/ and the gum that it is meddled with/ will go to an otherside/ and if it be not counterfeit the cloth will not soil/ and it will not waste but keep weight as it was put in/ or else not Another probation is this. Put opobalsame to the roof of your mouth it will chafe the brain in such wise that it shall seem as it would burn. Some say if it be put in the palm of the hand that it will thryll through/ but that is not so. It hath virtue to consume/ to dissolve/ & to attray  

¶ For strangury. A  
¶ Against dyssury/ and strangury/ the stone in the bladder/ and against opilations of those parties caused of cold humours/ give a clystre at the pipe of the ●eche with opobalsame/ and oil mustely●●/ but first let the yard be swollen & ●●y●fe/ and washed without with warm water/ and anointed with opobalsame or oil of spikenard.   

¶ For ylyake passion B  
¶ Against ylyake passion/ and pain of the stomach of coldness/ take a quantity of opobalsame with warm wine.   

¶ For seams after wounds. C  
¶ For cycatryces or seem after wounds meddle opobalsame with wax/ and lay to it ten days.   

¶ For daily ague. D  
¶ For daily ague/ first make a convenable purgation/ and than take opobalsame with wine. ¶ Against pain of the ears drop of it in to them   

¶ Against to the ache: E  
¶ Against the to the ache/ put a little in to the ear in that the same side the pain is. It keepeth the deed body fro corruption/ for as soon as it is dissolved as much it doth consume.    

¶ De bolo armenico. Ca lvi.  
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BOlus amenus is cold and dry in the second degree. It is a vain of the earth that is found in the land of Armeny more than in any other plate/ and therefore it is called bol armeny/ or of armeny. It is not contrefayt because it is in great quantity. It may be kept. C. years. It hath virtue to withhold That is to be chosen that is cede all about without any other colour/ and is easy to break.  

¶ Against passion emoptoyke. A  
¶ Against passion emoptoyke/ that is when any spitteth blood at the mouth/ if it be by vice of the spiritual membres that lieth in the hollowness of the rib of the breast/ make pills of the powder of bol/ with gum arabyc/ and penycles/ and let them be mingled with tysan that gum dragagant is tempered in good quantity a day and a night/ so moche that it be tycke in manner of agely/ and therewith confect the pylles which the patient shall hold upon his tongue/ to cause them to melt & go to the said membres aforesaid. But if the blood issue by fault of the nourishing membres that is the stomach/ the liver/ the milt/ and the bowels/ let the powder of bol/ and gum arabyc be meddled together in the juice of plantain/ and given together.   

¶ For the flux. B  
¶ Against the bloody flux of the belly called dyssenterie/ confect the powder of bol with the white of an egg/ or with the hole egg/ and make crespes thereof/ and give him ii or iii in the morning. Or else confyct the powder of bol with juice of plantain/ and if the sickness be above in the guts give it at the mouth. If it hold more in the neither part of the guts than in the upper/ make first a purgation. and give it him with a clystre. Than make a plaster thus. Take the powder of Bolus armenus/ and confyct it with white of an egg/ and a little vinegar/ and if the disease be more upwards than downward lay the plaster upon the navel/ if it be more beneath than above lay the plaster unto the reins/ and above the yard. ¶ Against superfluity of flowers in women confyct bol with juice plantain/ and wete cotton therein/ and make a tent or plaster and laid to the orifice   

¶ For nose bleeding. C  
¶ Against flux of blood of the nose meddle ●ol with juice of sanguynary that is bursa pastoris/ or cassewede/ and put it in to the nose with a quyll/ or drop therein/ or that the powder of bol be put in to the nose with cotton/ or take powder of bol & powder of bursa pastoris small beaten & let the patient draw it in to his nose. A plaster made with juice of bursa pastoris/ white of an egg and powder of bol/ laid to the temple restraineth the bleeding.   

¶ De bombace Cotton. A  
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BOmbax is cotton and is an herb that groweth beionde the see/ and in Cycyll is great quantity. The flower is cotton/ but we find in recepts or a seed that is put in medicine/ and is used in electuaries restoracyves. & know y● that in the said electuary seminis bombacis/ the sede aught to be taken well cleansed without husks. This seed is good for asmatykes/ and have their breath with pain/ and for tysykes/ and for them that be consumed or wasted by sickness or otherwise.    

¶ De balaustia/ flowers of pomga●natis. Ca lvii.  
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BAlaustia is the flower of the tree that beareth pomgamaties. As this tree should bear fruit/ the flower seemeth a little bunch or knop which sometime falleth or is taken from the tree/ & is called balaustia. It is cold and dry in the second degree. It may be kept two years in bounty. Psidia is the bark of the pomegarnat/ and this bark must be taken when the apple is ripe/ and the kernels win it. It hath virtue to restrain and hath all the virtue that bol armeny hath/ and helpeth the vomit choleric/ & flux of the belly caused of default of virtue contentyve.  

¶ Against vomit. A  
¶ Against vomit choleric/ break balaustie and pride's/ and seethe them in vinegar/ and wete a sponge in the said decoction/ and lay it to the pit of the stomach   

¶ Against flux. B  
¶ Against flux of the belly caused of weakness make a decoction of balaustie/ & psides with rain water/ and with this decoction make fomentation/ that is to say let the belly be long chafed therewith The powder of balaustie rejoineth wounds/ & in stead of bol armeny is put powder of balaustie/ but take for a general rule when thou findest any medicine in a receipt put none other in the place of other so that thou may get any of that which is expressly named.    

¶ De Boragine. Borage. Ca lviii.  
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¶ Nota the pictour of bombar & borago the one is put for the other   
BOrage is an herb that hath rugh leaves and is named bourage. It is hot and moist in the first degree the leaves be good in medicine while they been green/ but not dry/ and next the leaves take the seed. It engendereth good blood and therefore it is good for them that have be seek of late.  

¶ Against cordyake passion. A  
¶ For them that been disposed to fall in swoon/ or been faint at the heart/ and have cordyake passion/ that is pain at the heart/ and for them that have melancolic humours in their body/ let them eat borage with their flesh or in their pottage   

¶ Against swooning B  
¶ Against swowninge make syrup with juice of borage and sugar.   

¶ Againg possyon of the heart C  
¶ Against passion of the heart make syrup with this juice/ and put thereto powder of the bone in the heart of a heart.   

¶ Against melancolyke. D  
¶ Against melancolic passions/ and against epilence or falling evil/ seethe suet in juice of borage and make a syrup thereof/ and if ye have no leaves seethe the sedes thereof in water/ and strain them & make a syrup. The sedes may be kept ii year in virtue. The rote is not used in medicines/ if the herb be eaten raw it breedeth good blood.   

¶ Against jaundice. E  
¶ Against jaundice eat this herb often sudden with flesh/ and let the patient use the juice thereof with juice of scaryole that is wild levise.  
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¶ De baucia. Skyrwyt. Ca lix.  
BAucia is an herb called skyr wit It is hot in the middle of the second degree/ and moist in the beginning of the same degree. It is all called pastinaca. There been two manners. The wild and the tame. It is better for meet than for medicine. It is good for them that have be lately seek/ and for melancolic persons if they eat it raw or sudden and the green is better than the dry/ and there is a manner of gynger made confycte with this herb that moveth to lecery/ & comforteth the digestion/ and it is made thus. The rote of this herb is well sudden in water/ and after cut in small pyces/ & strain the water and fashion them round ●ndlonge/ and set them to seethe with honey till they be tycke as the honey/ but they must be always stirred that they cleave not to the pan/ and in the mids of the seething put in almonds/ & at the last seed or grains of pine apples blaun●●ed/ than put to spices as ginger/ synam●●n/ galingale/ pepper/ and of nutmyggy●●r other spices.   

De Borace. Boras Ca lx.  
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BOrax is hot and dry in the fourth degree. It is the gum of a t●● that groweth beyond these Cut of this tree droppeth a pure liquor/ & tycke that hardeneth by the heat of the son/ & there droppeth an other liquor that is unpure soft and earth. Borax the clear/ white shining/ and hard is to be chosen/ and if there be any superfluity thereon it ought to be taken away. It hath virtue to draw to obsterge/ and cleanse the face. It taketh away the infection named pannus/ that cometh after that a woman hath childed and also of the heat of the air. if ye meddle the powder of Borax with rose water and anoint the face.  

¶ To cleanse the face. A  
¶ For to cleanse the visage women do meddle powder of borax with white honey/ or with a yellow ointment/ or with grease of a hen/ & anoint their face/ and ye may put two drams of powder of borax in two ounces of rose water/ and in a pound of honey an ounce of borax. ¶ To provoke the flowers withholden/ and to cause the deed child to come out/ make a suppository or tent with borax/ and the juice of an herb called centrum galley.    

Do Bethonica. Bethony. Ca lxi.  
BEthonica is bethony. It is hot & dry in the third degree/ the leaves be good in medicine both green & dry. And when bethony is found in reciptes the leaves is to be taken/ the herb groweth on hills/ woods/ & shadows/ & about trees. It hath virtue against man● evils It hath virtue to heal brusynges & wounds in the heed if it be stamped in a mortar & laid to the sore/ but it must be renewed every third day till it be hole/ & it is said that it draweth out broken bones.  

¶ For heed ache. A  
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¶ Against ache of the heed coming of cold/ make a gargarism or water of bethony and stafysagre sudden in vinegar/ if the ache come of humours ascending fro the stomach take wine that bethony is sudden in. Also it is good when the cause of the ache is in the heed.   

¶ For the stomach. B  
¶ Against dolour of the stomach make decoction of bethony in water with juice of wormwood/ if the womb be sorebounde take this also/ but first take a clyster.   

¶ For to cleanse the matryce. G  
¶ And for to cleanse the matryce/ & to help conception make a warm fomentation of water that it hath be sudden in/ and also make a suppository/ and give an electuary confyct with powder of bethony and honey.   

¶ For the eyes. D  
¶ For pain of the eyes wash them every third day with the decoction of bethony. Also the leaves bruised and laid plasterwise to the brows and forehead helpeth moche.   

¶ For the eeres E  
¶ Against pain of the eeres mengle the juice of bethoni with oil of roses/ and put it warm in to the eeres with a tent and stop them with wool.   

¶ For the eyes. F  
¶ Against dimness of the eyes a dram of the powder of bethony taken in the morning fasting with water profiteth moche and take away marvelously the dimness of the eyen and scoureth the neither parts fro whence such dimness cometh.   

¶ For bleeding at the nose G  
¶ Against flux of blood at the nose meddle powder of bethony with as much salt/ & put as much as ye can take between two fingers and a thumb in to the nostrils and the blood will staunch.   

¶ For tooth ache. H  
¶ Against pain of the tooth/ seethe bethony in wine or vinegar/ and hold it hot a good while in your mouth/ and it will take away the pain.   

¶ For vomit. I  
¶ For them that have vomit and for them that have not their breath at will/ & hath stopping in their breast take a dram & a half of powder of bethony with .v. measures of water that is about a gobelet full and drink it fasting.   

¶ For the tysyke. K  
¶ To them that hath the tysyke and that spit filthiness as it were of an apostume be given iii drams of powder of bethony with an ounce of honey fasting.   

¶ For the stomach. L  
¶ For the pain of the stomach take three drams of the same powder with cold water iii days and ye shall be hole.   

¶ Against the milt. M  
¶ Against the ache of the milt/ wine or drink that bethony is sudden in profiteth marvelously.   

¶ For pain of the reins. N  
¶ For the pain of the reins drink two drams of this powder with water or wine and it will cause health.   

¶ For the colic passion. O  
¶ Against colic passion take fasting two drams of this powder with three or four pepper corns with old wine warmed   

¶ For ache of the womb. P  
¶ For ache of the womb take a dram of this powder as it is said.   

¶ For pain of the neck Q  
¶ For pain of the neck take wine that hath be sudden with bethony.   

¶ Against a great cough. R  
¶ Against a great cough/ electuary meddled with this powder/ and honey maketh great effect.   

¶ For fever. S  
¶ For daily fever or quotidian/ two drams of bethoni and one of plantain with warm water taken at the hour of the axces/ profiteth greatly.   

¶ Against fever tertian T  
¶ For fever tertian give at the hour of the access powder of bethony/ and poulyot of each a dram with warm water to the patient and he shall be hole.   

¶ Against fever quartan V  
¶ For fever quartayn/ three drams of this powder/ and an ounce of baccatum laury or bay berries with three cyates of warm water given to the patient before the hour of his access healeth him without grief   

¶ For pain in the bladder. X  
¶ Against pain of the bladder four drams of bethony/ and four roots of smallage sudden in water/ but first seethe the roots till the water be half wasted/ than seethe the bethony therein/ and let the patient drink it and he shall be hole for ever   

¶ Against the stone. Y  
¶ Against the stone in the bladder/ two drams of this powder with vinegar squyllityke/ and honey of each an ounce and & half/ and give viii cyates/ to the patient of times and it will drive the stone out   

¶ For a woman that have great pain in their travail. Z  
¶ To women that have over great pain in their travail/ and that fall in an ague be given two drams of powder of bethony with water warmed. And if they have none ague give it with myrabolany and ye shall see good proof.   

¶ For the palsy. &  
¶ For the palsy/ bray green bethony and lay to it. If it be laid to cut sinews it will knit them:   

¶ For them that be fearful a  
¶ For them that been to fearful/ give two drams of powder hereof with warm water and as much wine/ at the time that the fere cometh. ¶ Too women that hath lost all play by coldness give here two. drams of this powder with warm water three cyates the space of three days fasting.   

¶ For spitting of blood. b  
¶ To them that spit blood or rottenness at the mouth give two drams of powder of bethony with two cyates of old wine three days/ and it will hele them.   

¶ For drunkenness. c  
¶ And if thou wilt never be drunken eat bethony or thou drink and thou shalt not be drunken of all the day.   

¶ For jaundice. d  
¶ To them that have ieterye or jaundice called the golden sickness because they seem to be guilded powder of bethony taken often with wine is a remedy proved.   

¶ For them that have carboncles. e  
¶ To them that have carboncles one dragma of this powder with two cyates is good Also the herb confyct with grease and lay on them healeth greatly.   

¶ For them that been grieved. f  
¶ To them that been grieved/ a dram of powder of bethony & three cyates of very good wine taken three days maketh them hole.   

¶ For weariness. g  
¶ To them that be weary of going give to drink a dram of this powder with warm water and an ounce of oxymel.   

¶ For them that have lost their appetite h  
¶ To them that have lost their appetite by sickness give ii drams of this powder with four cyotes of drink/ it taketh away the loathsomeness and evil taste of meats:   

¶ For vomit. i  
¶ Against vomit take powder of bethony four drams/ an ounce of honey sudden/ and make little pellets of the bigness of a nut/ and eat them three days fasting/ or wet them in warm water and drink them.   

¶ Against pain of the yard. k  
¶ Against pain & swelling of the yard or pintle/ seethe bethony in wine & stamp it and plaster wise lay to it.   

¶ For venom l  
¶ For venom three drams of this powder taken with four cyates of wine putteth out the venom/ and is good against biting of venomous beasts.   

¶ For biting of a mad dog. m  
¶ For biting of a mad dog this herb green/ beaten and laid to it healeth.   

¶ Against fistula. n  
¶ Against fistula beat green bethony with salt and make a tent/ and put in to it/ and a plaster of the same laid upon it will make it hole.   

¶ Against pain of the rib. oh  
¶ Against pain of the rib or sides/ take two drams of this powder with ydromel if there be no fever/ and if there take it with warm water.   

¶ Against podagre. p  
¶ Against podagre take water that bethony is sudden in and drink it often/ and lay the herb plasterwise upon the feet/ it appeaseth the pain marvelously as they say that have proved it.    

¶ Delingua anseris. Goos bill/ or stitch wort. Ca lxii  
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GOos bill or becdoye is an herb common enough. The rote of it is like a goose bill/ and the leaves been like the leaves of fern. This herb is hot and dry in the fourth degree/ and moist in the second. The rote is good in medicine and so is not the herb.  

¶ Against brostennesse. A  
¶ Against all manner of breaking & brusure as well to great as small. let the patient be bathed four days/ and the first day give him to drink this rote tempered in white wine or in water and continue ix. days every morning/ and at night let him have a restrayntyfe of the oldest beans that can be found. seethe them in vinegar in manner of pap/ and dry them by the fire to make powder of them in a mortar. Powdre of sanguis draconis/ a nutshale full/ and as moche of bol armenyke/ and the double of powder of beans/ & the white of two eggs all bet together & a plaster made on cloth and laid upon the sore day and night before the said ix days/ and give him to drink the most early that ye can/ and renew the restrayntyfe night and marrow For the same take this herb & take out the heart that is within it which is white/ and cut it in small roundelles and lay them in fountain water xxxvi hours/ that is two days and a night/ than pour the water in to a glass or viol and give a little glass full of it to the patient to drink an hour or he eat in the morning/ & than let him rest an hour after upon his back/ than take him up & give him laxative meats to his break fast/ a little and oft/ & as much at night after his supper/ and than lie an hour on his back/ and stretch not his legs to much/ and continue him thus till he be hole.    

¶ De Berneryce. Ca lxiii.  
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BErnix is the gum of a tree that groweth beyond the see. For this tree droppeth a gommy thickness that hardeneth by heat of the son. It is called Bernix and is in three manners. One is a colour like the russet. The other like to yellow. And the third like to white. Of what colour it be so that it be clear it is good. It is cold and dry in the second degree/ and hath virtue to conjoin to fasten/ to enlarge/ and to conserve/ the which may appear/ for painters lay it upon other colours to cause them to shine and that the last or keep the better. It may be kept long without enpayring.  

¶ For bleeding of the nose A  
¶ Against flux of blood of the nose/ meddle powder of Bernix with glayre of an egg and lay to the forehead and temples/ and with that and other binding or cleaving things make powder and put in to the nose.   

¶ For vomit. B  
¶ Against choleric vomit make a plaster with this powder and olibanum/ with white of an egg/ and be laid upon the fork of the breast.   

¶ Against flux of the belly. C  
¶ Against flux of the vombe called dyssenterie. If it be bloody flux it is also good/ so that a little vinegar be put thereto and be laid between the belly and the yard.   

¶ Against vomit. D  
¶ The powder thereof against vomit may be given to eat with a rear egg. It is good against flux of the womb with in and without.   

¶ For to make a clear face. E  
¶ Women of some countries lay it on their faces to make them clear. And wite ye that Bernix/ Cacabre/ and veronyce is all one thing.  
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¶ Brancha ursina. Bearefote. Ca lxiiii.  
BRancha ursina is an herb called bears twig or bough It is hot and moist in the first degree. It hath virtue to soften and to ripe  

¶ For cold opostumes. A  
¶ Against cold apostumes seethe the leaves with bores grease/ and lay thereto.   

¶ Against apostumes of the membres. B  
¶ Against the apostumes of the membres within the breast seethe this herb in water and stamp them and lay to it.   

¶ For the milt. C  
¶ Against the pain of the milt & against dryness of the sinews. Make ointment of this herb betten/ and than lay it long in oil strained in oil/ & with wax make an ointment. In these ointments the leaves ought to be used while they be green.    

¶ De Berberis. Berberies' Ca lxv.  
BErberyes been fruits so named/ they been cold & dry in the seconds degree. They ben fruit of a slender/ or little tree/ the fruit is somewhat long drawing somewhat to black colour  depiction of plant and they ought to be chosen that be sound and not them that be full of holes. They be good against evil qualities/ or furious heat/ if they be sudden in water & sugar put to the decoction it is made a syrup.  

¶ For the liver. A  
¶ Against heat or chausting of the liver/ take powder of berberyes meddled with juice of morel and lay to it.   

¶ For the heed ache. B  
¶ Against the pain of the heed caused of heat lay berberyes in water all a night/ and give the same water in the morrow to drink. It may be kept a year in goodness.    

¶ De Belliculis marinis. Ca lxvi.  
BEllieull maxini been also a manner of berries that be found about the see side they been cold and dry/ but auctors determint not in what degree They be put in ointment to claryfye and cleanse the face/ as in yellow ointment/ I is used thus.  

¶ To cleanse the face. A  
¶ To make the face clear/ make small powder of them meddled with grease of a hen lyquyfyed or molten/ and make thereof 〈◊〉 ointment. It may be kept vi years.    

De bystorta Ca lxvii.  
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BIstorta is cold and dry/ but it is not determined of masters in what degree/ but by the rankness thereof it is found dry in the third degree It hath virtue to restrain/ to comfort/ to cause/ to retain & conceive. And bistorta seemed the herb that is called Pentaphilon/ but pentaphilon hath .v. leaves/ and bistorta vii at one branch.  

¶ For vomit. A  
¶ Against vomit caused of weakness/ heat or odour of choleric/ meddle the powder of bistort with white of an egg/ & taste them on a tile & give it to the patient.   

¶ Against flux of the belly. B  
¶ Against dysintery that is flux of the womb with blood/ give this powder with juice of plantain.   

¶ For the flowers G  
¶ To stop the flowers that run to abundantly/ make fomentation with rain water that this powder was sudden in.   

¶ For conception. D  
¶ To help to conceive make electuary of powder of bistort in quantity of half a pound/ and sweet smelling spices of the same weight/ and make a fomentation. This powder resowdreth wounds/ and healeth them. Bystorte is an herb/ the rote thereof is so named/ and is writhen/ and crooked as galingale.    

¶ De buglossa. Oxtongue/ or langdebefe Ca lxviii.  
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BVglossa is an herb that the greeks call it Buglose/ the latyns call it lange de beufe/ the romans lingua bubela/ some call it wild bourache It groweth in very sandy places/ & aught to be gathered in the month of july or june It hath virtue hot and moist in the first degree as borache. This herb hath three stalks beryngasede. Th●●te of this herb sudden in water is monoxylous good for them that have the fever quartain.  

¶ For fever ●uartayne. A  
¶ Against fever quartain take brig●os●● that hath four stalks with sed●s it 〈◊〉 rote thereof and give it to drink 〈◊〉   

¶ Against apost●me. B  
¶ Against aposteme take this herb and stamp it with honey and crumbs of bred and make a plaster/ and lay to it/ it breaketh it anon and purgeth:   

¶ For feebleness of the heart. C  
¶ For them that have weakness of heart and take their breath in manner of sighs/ give them the juice with honey/ and it will heal it as Macer saith   

¶ For colere D  
¶ Against to great abundance of reed colere/ drink that buglose hath be sudden in oft-times taken helpeth greatly reed collar and dry collar.   

¶ For the heart. E  
¶ Against passion of the heart caused of black colere/ and like wise for the lights/ bugloss often eaten raw or sudden putteth out the noisome humours. For the dry gout the juice thereof drunken perfecteth moche   

¶ To preserve the mind F  
¶ This herb often eaten confirmeth and conserveth the mind as many wise masters saith. It profiteth against lechery. If it be eaten with lettuce it maketh good artempraunce/ for it engendered good blood and the colenesse of the lettuce tempereth the great heetes.   

¶ To make folk merry. G  
¶ Take the water that buglose hath be sudden in/ and sprinkle it about the house or chamber/ and all they that be therein shall be merry. And it is to wite that of this herb been three kinds and manners. The first beareth a flower like colour of the sky/ as bourache. Th●●ther beareth a white flower and the rote black without and white within/ and hath great stalks like cats tails. The other hath a yellow flower & small leaves/ and is very sharp/ and therefore many call it aspargo/ or asperelle/ but that that hath colour of the sky is the best/ and is that which ought to be used in medicine.    

De butiro. Butter. Ca lxix.  
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BVtirum is butter. In the first degree it is hot/ and cold in the second. The best butter is it that is made of cows milk or sheep/ and the newer it is the better.  

¶ For dry cough A  
¶ Against dry cough short wind/ & fortysyke/ and them that be wasted and dry/ fresh butter put in all their meats and pottage/ and eaten with hot tostes it restoreth moistness/ and wasteth the cough.   

¶ For the sinews B  
¶ Against pain of the sinews & shrinking/ anoint them often in the bath or by the fire & it will appease the pain & comfort or souple the sinews.   

¶ For hot aposteme C  
¶ Against hot aposteme seethe the herb called brancha ursina/ that is herefore or bioles leaves & meddle it with old or new butter/ & make a plaster upon the seek place it will ripe it marvelously & abate the ache. Isaac saith that butter is behoveful for wounds of the lights & of the midriff/ & of the bulk for it cleanseth/ sowpelth/ softeneth & ripeth the wounds. Also it easeth the pain of children's gums in breaking of teeth. And if it be drunk with honey/ it helpeth against venom. But to much using of it noyeth the stomach. It looseth the strings/ and sinews of the stomach and maketh smooth the voughnesse thereof marvelously.    

¶ De Berbena. Vernayne. Ca lxx.  
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BErbena/ vernayne. It is otherwise called columbrina It is cold & dry/ but the auctors tell not in what degree/ it groweth in moist places ¶ To all swellings of the neck/ be it aposteme or other thing called perotides/ that be things that letteth a man to swallow his meat/ the rote of this herb hanged about his neck profiteth moche/ or else meddle it with fresh suet or grease/ and if it be hard lay it to. And if he can not swallow his meat take juice of vernayn with honey & seethe it a walm and drink a cyate thereof/ and he shall be hole anon. ¶ For the pain of thorax that is the breast/ take the powder of this herb that was gathered when the son was at the highest and if the patient can go give him .v. spoons full with three cyates of warm wine. And to them be weyke give after as their strength and age may suffer/ & as the season of the time requireth.  

¶ For the stone A  
¶ For to break the stone in the bladder drink of the rote of vernayne with ydromell and ye shall lightly perceive ease for it will provoke urine.   

¶ For the heed. B  
¶ For pain of the heed were a garland thereof for it taketh the heat away marvelously.   

¶ For biting of serpents. C  
¶ Against biting of serpents 〈…〉 venomous beasts/ who so beareth ●●te herb in his hand or hath it gird about him shall be sure of all serpents.   

¶ For biting of a spider. D  
¶ Against biting or styngyns of a spider take drink that vernayne hath be sudden in/ or bruise the leaves and lay it to the place and it will be lightly hole.   

¶ For biting of a mad dog. E  
¶ Against biting of a mad dog/ & against dropsy the leaves of this herb stamped is good. And if ye will know if the patient shall die or not/ take xu cor●●s of wheet/ and put them in the wounds & let them lie there till they be big swollen as they would sprout/ & than cast them to ●hekyns among other corn/ & if they eat them he shall live/ & if not he shall die.   

¶ For biting of a serpent F  
¶ Against biting of a serpent seethe two or three handful of this herb and wash the place therewith/ & stamp the leaves and lay thereto/ and it will abate the swelling there●/ than bray the herb with honey/ & lay it often thereto and it will resowere & heal it.   

¶ For jaundice. G  
¶ Against jaundys take a dram of ●er rain of spynarde the weght of th●●● & a little myrte and give the patient for to drink with three cyates of water/ and if the vernayne be gathered in august it is a certain remedy.   

¶ For stench of the mouth H  
¶ For stench of the mouth/ keep the juice thereof long in the mouth. Also the juice thereof voideth all venom. ¶ For fever tertian or quartan temper three rotes and three leaves of vernayn in water and let the patient drink it before his axcesse and he shall be hole.   

¶ To make folk merry at the table. I  
¶ To make all them in a house to be merry take four leaves & four roots of vernayn in wine/ than sprinkle the wine all about the house where the earring is & they shall be all merry.    

¶ De brytanica Ca lxxi.  
BRitanica herba is herb britanike other wise called ameos. The ptalyens call it bear piaca niaca. It is good against evils and rottenness. This herb eaten raw as lettuce is/ healeth the stench of the mouth.  

¶ For tooth ache. A  
¶ For the tooth ache/ and for wagging teeth this herb hath great virtue. It ought to be gathered in summer and dried/ & made in powder/ and put in a fair bag or in a silver vessel/ and when need is to be drunken with warm wine. If it be holden long in the mouth it putteth tooth ache away/ and fasteneth them.   

¶ For palsy B  
¶ For the palsy bray the rote and herb together and drink it with three cyates of wine/ and it will do great ease.   

¶ To lose the belly. C  
¶ Take the juice of this herb after the might of the patient and it will lose the womb without peril.   

¶ For the milt D  
¶ For the pain of the milt/ stamp this herb with the rote in three cyates of wine helpeth moche ¶ Against the quinsey/ gather this herb or thou here the thunder that year/ and eat every day once of the rote thereof & thou shalt not feel that sickness.    

¶ De bursa pastoris. Cassewed. Ca lxxii  
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BVria pastoris is shepeherdꝭ pur● some call it sanguynary because it stauncheth bleeding of the nose It hath leaves like to eruca or skyrwit the less/ the sede of it is like a purse. It hath unknown and secret virtues/ and groweth by paths and high ways. It ought to be gathered in june/ in the waynynge of the moan.  

¶ For bleeding of the nose. A  
¶ This herb is good for flux of blood at the nose if the patient bear it in his right hand green or dry so it be dowbled one over an other it stoppeth or stauncheth marvelously.   

¶ For them that he brusen. B  
¶ For them that be brusen or have the last the powder thereof taken with good wine oftentimes giveth them health.    

¶ De brionia. Wild neppe or bryony Ca lxxiii.  
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BRionia is also called/ cucurbyta agrestis/ that is wild gourds. Some call it vitis alba. It groweth in moist sandy grounds/ and in hedges and it hath a great rote. There be two kinds of it that is the white & the black That that beareth a reed sede is called the black/ the other hath a white sede. The black is the best and hath most might as hippocras saith It is principally good against spasma that some gout or cramp if the rote be hanged about the patient's neck it will do him ease.  

¶ For spitting of blood: A  
¶ For dyssyntery/ and for them that spette blood/ a cyates of the juice thereof helpeth greatly if it be taken three or four times   

¶ For drunkenness. B  
¶ To eschew drunkenness drink the juice of bryony with as much vinegar and he shall not be drunk of all that week.  
¶ Against colic passion and ylica passion drink the broth that the leaves with honey is sudden in & it will take away the pain   

¶ For kings evil C  
¶ Against estroilles' or kings evil/ canker/ or other sores take the rote of bryony & of aristologia or smerwort alike much and beat them with honey and grease/ and lay to it ¶ Against dyssyntery/ and pain of the fundament/ and for them that have bones broken in their hands or other places take xl crops of bryony/ and iii ounces of gles broken and boiled together in iii cyates of wine till two parts be wasted than strain it and give to the patient. hippocras saith that a man had all the fingers of his hands eaten and gnawn with sickness/ but he used this medicine/ and was made hole.   

¶ For wertes: D  
¶ For to take away wertes take the seed of briony with the leaves/ bren them and make ashes of them/ and meddle the ashes with juice of the same herb like an ointment/ and anoint them often/ & they will fall of. The douge of an eygle doth the same/ as hippocras saith: The juice of bryoni holden long in the mouth healeth the cankerdes gums: To cleanse the matryce/ and to provoke the flowers/ make a vomentation of water that bryony was sudden in and received by the orifice.   

¶ For women's breasts. E  
¶ Against pain of the paps of crudded or corrupt milk/ wash them with the decoction afore said warm/ & it will ●●●ge them marvelously: Also it looseth the womb.   

¶ For fever quattayne F  
¶ Against fever quactayne take the sedes of bryony that ye find four together/ & let the patient drink them afore his access ¶ To provoke or cause urine drink the water that the buds were sudden i●  
¶ For women that can have no milk seethe the buds of bryony in pottage or sew & eat them & the milk will come in great quantity    

¶ De bedegar. Eglentyne. Ca lxxiiii  
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BEdegart is a thorn or briar. It is cold in the first degree/ but it is mean between most and dry/ some say that bedegart is a superfluity that groweth on rose trees or rosyers'/ but that is not so/ for bedegart is an herb that groweth in plains and hard ground/ and hath a fat lief jagged & cloven like eruca or skyrwyt/ and spreadeth on the earth while it is young and hath a white thorn very sharp in the mids/ and after it groweth to the height of a cubit and no more. It hath many little pricks/ and a reed flower. It comforteth the stomach/ and ceaseth long fevers. It is good against evil of the membres coming of the stomachs infection. If it be chewed and laid upon biting of venomous beasts/ it appeaseth the pain It is good against flux of blood and against flux of the womb. And when it is warmed and laid to the said membres it comforteth them and driveth away the humours rennfuge to them. It waste 〈◊〉 humours and breaketh moist apostumes. If the mouth be washed with water that it is sudden in it teaseth the pain of ●●e the If the utter hark be drunken with wine or water/ it purgeth the phlegmatic humours.  

¶ For morfewe A  
¶ 'gainst nor few meddle it with vineygre and anoint the place/ and it will make it cleave/ and take away the swelling. The bark and branches of this herb be cold and dry:    

¶ Be hedello. Ca lxxv.  
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BEdellum is a gum so called It is hot in the second degree/ & moist in the first. It groweth on trees beyond the see: It hath a gleyme substance/ it hath virtue to restrain. It is good against flux of the womb caused of to much medicine. It healeth apostumes coming outward/ and breaketh the stone/ and appeaseth the cough. It healeth biting of venomous beasts if it be well tempered in vinegar.  

¶ For brusting. A  
¶ If it be sudden in wine with ceruse it is very good for them that be broken if the place be anointed therewith. And the said is good against swelling and apostum●s of the genitors:    

¶ De bardana. A clote that beareth burrs Ca lxxvi.  
BArdana is an herb that other wise is called lappa inversa or lappa maior. It groweth in fast places humorous and fat/ and princypally about dyches. It hath great leaves and reed flowers like small apples/ and a long sede.  

¶ For biting of a wood dog. A  
¶ For biting of a wood dog lay there on the rote bruised with a little salt/ and it will heal.   

¶ For the hot ange B  
¶ If it be laid to the patient having the hot ague it will appease it.   

¶ For stinking wounds C  
¶ For stinking wounds/ wash them in water that it is sudden in and make an ointment of the same meddled with a little saluystre and grese picule with vinegar and say thereto.   

¶ For pains in the guts D  
¶ For the pain of the entrails take a cyate of the juice of the leaves and it will be great ease.  
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〈…〉 to Box tree. Ca lxxvii.  
BVxus is a little tree whereof is made many edifices/ the leaves of ●ede like the leaves of myrrh/ & hath a round reed sede. It is called box/ if the leaves and scraping of the would be put in lie if appeaseth the fever.  

¶ For stinking wounds. A  
¶ Against stinking wounds let them be washed in water of the said tree. To make the here yellow wash the heed v●lye that lelies of box hath be sudden in.    

¶ De brusco: Ca lxxviiii  
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BRuscus is hot and dry in the third degree/ it is a common tree growing in woods. It hath virtue d●●retyke/ and to dyssolutyfe:  

¶ For dropsy: B  
¶ Against dropsy make decoction of the rote of burst/ of sperache/ of fennel/ percely/ & honey sufficiently and give it to drink. It is good also against the hardness of the milt/ and against dyssury & strangury/ that been lettings of the urine/ & against ylyake passion/ if powder be made of the sede of brusce of anise seed/ and fennel seed with as much sugar/ and take a spoonful of it with wite wine fasting/ and if the patient have an ague give him those sedes with water.   

¶ For the genytoryes B  
¶ For the pain & swelling of the genitors/ seethe well the rote of brusce/ and make a plaster thereof/ and put suet to it and bind it fast with a bend/ & it will ease the swelling:    

¶ De bleta: Betes Ca lxxix.  
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BLeta is a common herb called betes. The greek call it syda. It is good for to eat. It is hot in the first degree & moist in the second It hath virtue to nourish well and to breed good blood. If it be sudden with fat flesh it looseth the womb. ¶ Against stypulacyon of the womb caused of dryth/ & of heat/ make a clystre of juice of betes with salt or oil.   

¶ Blacta bisantia Ca lxxx.  
BLacte bisantie been hot & dry in the second degree. It is the eye of a fish moche like to snails/ & been found  two fish in shells like snails in the see & been of a bony sustance: They have great virtue to comfort & cleanse the members that be intrinsekes/ when they be drunken with vinegar they move & lose the belly/ they been aromatic & of good savour/ the suffumigation of them healeth the suffocation of the matryce.   

¶ De behem: Ca lxxxi.  
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BEhyn is a sharp or rugh excrescente that cometh on knobby roots with drawn or shronken of drieth There been two manners/ the white/ & read It is hot and dry in the second degree/ it is nouryssing impugnatyfe comforting the lights/ and the breast/ and increaseth the matter of generation.   
¶ Thus endeth the chapters of herbs beginning with. B.   

And followeth the chapters of herbs named with. C.  

¶ De Camphora. Camphor. Ca lxxxii.  
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CAmphora is champhere/ it is cold & dry in the third degree. Some saith that it is a gome but it is not so/ for it is the juice of an herb as Dyasco rides saith and divers other/ & the herbs name is camphora. It is gathered in the end of prymtyme/ and is powned/ and the juice pressed out and put in a vessel/ and the substance that is heavy and tycke goeth to the botoms/ and is cast away/ but the clear & thin swimmeth above and is kept/ and is set in the son where it waxeth thick/ and when it is dry it is the substance of camphora. It is often countrefayted/ and mystempered because it is dear/ & is meddled with other powder and other juice and so is increased to the third part or the half That which is clear and shining is the best/ and the dark and troublous is not so good. It is countrefayt by meddling of cacabte that is bernyx/ for bernyx is like to it in substance/ and is moche like of smell but it is known in breaking/ for bernyx is hard and breaketh with pain/ and the camphor breaketh easily. And if it be handled in the hands it breaketh lightly in powder. If camphor were not kept by artyfyce or craft it would be soon lost for it is aromatic and vaporous/ it resolveth in to smoke and is soon gone. It may be kept in a vessel of glass/ but better in a vessel of alebastre/ in line sede/ or percely sede/ & may be kept in great virtue xl year:  

¶ For gomorre. A  
¶ Against gomorre that the seed of a mangoyth frohym against his will. Tempre powder of camphor with mustylage of sili● or vertynce/ or juice of morel and therewith anoint clothes & lay to the reins/ above the yard and other places of generation:   

¶ For dyaletyke B  
¶ Against dyaletyke passion that is when a man pisseth to much put the same upon the reins & there may be laid a piece of lead. ¶ Against the heat of the liver/ meddle camphor with juice of morel/ and therein were bends and lay them often upon the liver   

¶ For bleeding at the nose. E  
¶ Against flux of blood at the nose make round long figures of the powder of camphor and of nettle seed and meddle them with juice of bursa pastoris/ and put them in the nose. And if this flux come by ebolucyon of blood or chaffing of the liver temper camphor with cold water/ & wete benbelles therein & lay them often to the temples and to the neck.   

¶ For the eyes. D  
¶ Against the spot in the eye let the powder of camphor be confyct with rose water and juice of fennel and put in a vessel of brass and anoint the eye therewith.   

¶ For the face E  
¶ Against infection of the face called pannus & for to make it clear/ confect this powder with rose water & very clean white honey   

¶ For lechery. F  
¶ Against lechery take the odour of camphor at the nostrils/ for by his cold virtue is ceaseth it and tycketh the seed/ & in the tycking it retaineth it in the body it taketh lechery away as this common verse said. Camphora per nares/ castrat odore nares. It repaireth also by coldness thereof the spirits unbound and looseth the great heat/ & it is put in syrup against the sharp and hot maladies/ and it is to wite that in frenasy sneezing may be convenably provoke if it be meddled with oil of roses/ and with a feather be put into the nostrils or anoint them therewith/ & it may be done so against fevers/ for it increaseth not the heed/ as doth hellebore/ pepper/ or peleter that provoketh sneezing by themself/ & it is good against rednsse of the eyes    

¶ Coloquintida. wild gowrde. ca lxxxiii  
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Coloquintida is hot & dry in the iii degree. coloquintida is the apple of a little tree that groweth toward Ihrlm/ and is other wise called gebella or gowrde of Alexandry. And it is to wite that if such an apple is found alone on the tree that beareth it/ that it mortifieth and fleeth as the herb asquill doth that is found alone/ as Dyascorides and constantine say. This fruit hath pith/ sede/ & back or pill/ the pith is most convenable in medicine and secondly the sede. The pill is of little might And colloquintide is found in recepts/ it is the sede with the pith/ That is to be chosen that continueth white & hath the sedes steedfast in the pith. And it is nought that rattleth when it is remewed: And if they weigh light with sedes in them they ought to be cast away. It may be kept vi years and better in the apple than otherwise It hath virtue to unbind and consume by his bitterness and hath might diuretic/ & purgeth phlegms principally/ and melancolic humours.  

¶ For fever quotydyan A  
¶ For fever quotydyan/ seethe an ounce of the inward parts of coloquyntyde and two or three drams of the juice of walwortidest ebulus/ in the apple of coloquintide/ and than strain it and in the straining put sugar to it and give it to the patient at night before his acces/ but the dygestes and other light purgations must first be had/ and after the purgations this must be given if the acces abide still.   

¶ For fever quartain B  
¶ Against fever quartain/ seethe seen in water/ and put the broth in the apple of colloquintide & seethe it therein/ than strain it/ put sugar in the detoction and give it to the patient before the time of his access but as it is said the dygestes and purgations ought to be given afore/ and if the acces remain this to be given. It is good also for old scabs.   

¶ For to the ache. C  
¶ Against pain of the teeth/ colloquityde in vinegar & wash thy mouth therewith ¶ For worms in the belly meddle the powder thereof with honey and give to the patient And for children put worwood thereto & lay it plaster wise nigh to the navel.   

¶ For worms in the eeres D  
¶ Against worms in the eeres put in them the powder hereof juice of arssmert.   

¶ For the milt. E  
¶ Against hardness of the milt and of the liver take the juice of fennel sudden in the apple hereof/ or take the powder thereof with the said juice.   

¶ For to cleanse the matryce. F  
¶ For to cleanse the matryce/ and to provoke flowers retained make fomentation with water that coloquintida is sudden in. The powder of it sudden in the apple with any oil and cotton wet therein is good for the same:   

¶ For hemorrhoids. G  
¶ For hemorrhoids seethe oil in the apple and lay to them with cotton wet therein.    

¶ De casia fistula. Ca lxxxiiii.  
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CAsia fistula is hot & moist above all degrees/ for is arres is little. It is the fruit of a tree that beareth long sedes/ which by space of time weareth byge and long/ and the party without by the decoction of the son hardeneth the pith that is within/ & there is found twenty or xxx of them clening together. The bigest aught to be chosen for it is a token that it ought to have most pith and moistness If it be very black it is a token that it is ripe/ and that that ratteleth not when it is shaken is best/ for if it ratyll it is of little virtue and moistness/ and the seed is divided fro the pith. Casia may be kept two years/ and if ye find casia fistula in recepts with any weight/ as an ounce ii or iii drams the pith ought to be weighed without sedes/ but because Apotycarydes will not suffer it/ there aught to be put with the weight as much of the seed as there is of that which is weighed. And when it cometh to be confect/ boil not the case with the syrup/ but break it with the syrup while it is boiling & hot/ & strain it through a hollow case full of holes to cause the sedes to remain/ when ye find ounces in decoction ye ought to weigh it with the barks and sedes/ and than draw out the pith only in hot water and cast the sedes away than meddle it with powder of rhubarb & yellow myrabolan. And it is to wite that casia fistula is not boiled in any medycins but it be in oxymel and in tryfera saracenica/ and also it is in great quantity. It hath virtue to louse and slake the belly and to cleanse the heat of the blood It appeaseth marvelously the blood and purgeth collar and is good against sharp fevers. Casia fistula taken by itself or with water before the purgation plaineth the belly and is convenable to purgation.   

¶ De cuscuta/ Dodyr. Ca lxxxv.  
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CVscuta is hot in the first degree and dry in the second. It is an herb that windeth about flax or line growing. And it ought to be gathered with the flowers. It may be kept two years. It hath principally virtue to purge melancolic humours/ and flewmes. And therefore it is convenably put in decoctions ordained for to purge the same.  

¶ Against strangury. A  
¶ The water that it is sudden in is good against strangury and dyssury. And if much thereof may be had seethe it with wine and oil and make a plaster thereof to the reins/ to the belly/ and to other sore/ or grievous places.    

¶ De cardamomo. Ca lxxxvi.  
CArdamomum is hot and dry in the second degree. It is the fruit or seed of an herb. This herb bringing forth flowers in ver maketh a heap knop or cluster as doth lead of rue or like to grapes/ and therein is the sedes and been in two manners. But the greatest is the best for it is of sweeter smell/ and therefore the greatest is to be choose so that it have  depiction of plant a little sharpness with the sweet smell/ & draw somewhat to grey colour The white is to be refused: When cardamomun is put in medicines/ the little flores must be taken away/ & they must be wiped with a cloth to take away the dust or powder/ & the stalks cast away. It may be kept ten years. It hath virtue to comfort by the sweetness thereof/ and hath virtue to depart and dissolve/ and to consume by the qualities of it.  

¶ For swowing. A  
¶ Against swowing/ and passion of the heart caused of cold seethe it in sweet smelling wine with a little cose water and use it.   

¶ For the stomach B  
¶ For weakness of the stomach and to comfort digestion. Take with meres the powder of cardamomun/ with anis sede   

¶ For appetite. C  
¶ To provoke appetite lost/ and against vomit of cold cause. Confect cardamomum with juice of mynties and wet your meet therein. ¶ For the same take the said powder with dry mints or green/ & seethe them in vinegar with salted water/ and wete a sponge therein/ and lay it a little above the stomach.   

¶ For the brain. D  
¶ Against feebleness of the brain/ put it in the patient's nose if ye have the rheum or pose put the powder and oil of musk in to an egg shells till the oil seethe/ and therewith anoint the heed.    

¶ De cerusa. Ceruse. Ca lxxxvii.  
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CEruse is the flower of lead/ or gersa It is cold and dry in the second degree. It is made thus. Take vessels as pots of earth of a foot long/ & somewhat straight above and fill them half full of strong vinegar/ and lay staves or sticks overthwart the brims of them. Then take about a pound of lead made in square pieces and hang them with in the pots upon the sticks with threads four inch fro the vinegar/ and cover the vessels well/ and set them in a dark place & let them stand so the space of four months. And at the end of four months set open the door that they were shut in that the strengeth of the vinegar may go out Than open the pots and ye shall find a tyckenesse or hoornesse about the lead/ and so the lead is wasted than shrape that hoornesse away/ and put it in a great vessel with water/ and set it in the son/ and stir fast with your hands/ than pour out the water/ and put the matter that is at the bottom in another vessel somewhat hollow with water/ and set it again in the son/ and do thus till it be very white and 〈◊〉 And know ye that they that make 〈◊〉 fall often in palsy/ and epilence/ arthritic by the coldness of the vinegar that dissolveth and sleeth. Ceruse hath virtue to cleanse and dry superfluities and some women do use it/ or they wash their face/ they lie this powder thereon with rose water very thin and thendrely. Some do better for because ceruse stinketh somewhat the meddle ceruse with rose water and set it in the son specially in summer/ and when it is dry they put more rose water thereto/ and so continue it/ and than they make pylles and lay it on their faces/ some other put thereto borax/ or camphor/ and of belliculi maxine or of the one and other/ but they that occupy ceruse much happeneth to tooth ache & rottenness and stench of the mouth.   

¶ De Capparis. Ca lxxxviii.  
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CApparus is hot and dry in the second degree. Some say that it is an herb/ other say that it is a little tree. It is found beyond the see The bark/ the rote/ the flowers/ and the leaves been all good in medicines/ and specially the barks in the beginning of ver/ if they be haunged & dried in the son they may be kept .v. years in good virtue. And that bark is best that powdreth not when it is broken/ and that is somewhat russet in colour/ and somdele bitter/ and the flowers ought to be gathered while they be budded/ or they spread to much. For when they be over moche spread they be nought they be taken and confyct to be kept in vinegar/ they have virtue to incite & cause appetite and to cleanse and put out the humours at the mouth of the stomach. It comforteth the stomach that is cold/ and is meet and medicine for it.  

¶ Against the milt. A  
¶ Against the pain of the milt/ and hardness of the liver take wine that capparis hath be sudden in. If ointment be made this wise i●●s right mighty/ and is not less worth than grippa. Seth the powder of capparis in great quantity with the juice of fennel/ than put thereto wine and oil/ and seethe it till it be thick & put a little wax thereto. And also for the same an electuary that is called dyaceparus is very good/ the which electuary is this Take two ounces of the powder of the rote of capparis/ and an ounce of the rote of tamaryst/ & confyct them together with honey: The decoction of the rote of tamaryst/ and the juice of the leaves of capparis put into the exes with a little towe/ sleeth the worms. And if the rote and powder be sudden in oil and strained and dropped in to the eeres it sleeth not only the worms/ but also the fistules   

¶ For worms in the womb B  
¶ Against worms in the womb meddle this powder with honey and give it to the patient:   

¶ For the kings evil. C  
¶ For new escrocles called the kings evil Take the decoction of the barks or pylles of capparis of burst/ and sperage/ also anoint them with these ointments. Take a grey serpent/ and cut of the heed and the tail the mountenance of four inches/ & put it in to a pot with many small holes in the bottom/ and set that pot over an other pot without holes/ and than set the neither pot in a vessel with water over the fire & make it to seethe till the serpent be sudden/ & wasted/ than take the fat that is dropped in to the neither pot/ and powder of black hellebore or peleter and powder of the roots of capparis/ and meddle them in manner of ointment and anoint the sore place/ and let the patient drink the decoction afore said.   

¶ For ylyake passion: D  
¶ Against ylyake passion/ and against gout arthritic take a pound of the powder of barks of capparis/ and the juice of the rote of yeble/ and put sugar thereto and thereof make a syrup and give it to the patient twice in the week at morrow and at even/ with warmed water. If ye find capparis in recepts/ it is the bark of the rote.    

¶ De calamento. Calamynt. Ca xc.  
CAlamynt is hot and dry in the third degree. This herb is called Nespyte. Calamynt of the mountain is the best/ because it is the dryest/ and it ought to be gathered when it beareth flowers. It may be kept a year in a shadowed place if it be hanged to dry. It hath virtue to dissolve/ to unbind & to waste.  

¶ For cough. A  
¶ Against cough and scarcenesss of breath caused of cold take the drink that it hath be sudden in with liquorice/ or that the powder hath be sudden in with dry figs/ for the same the electuary called dyacalamen tum is good/ and it is made thus. Take a great deal of calamynt and powder of gencyan & liquorice the third or fourth part and confyct it with honey. It is very excellent for the said diseases. Take also the powder thereof with a rear egg and make fryters of the said powder with barley meal   

¶ For the stomach B  
¶ Against pain of the stomach and coldness of the guts let the patient use powder of calamynt in his meats/ & also use the drink that it is sudden in:   

¶ For cold rheum: C  
¶ Against cold rheum anoint the nalpe of the neck with the powder thereof and honey chafed in a new pot/ or else the herb for it is good. ¶ Against the relaxation of moistness/ make a gargarism to wash the mouth of vinegar that powder of it hath be sudden in or water thereof is very good.   

¶ For costiveness. D  
¶ Against costiveness if it be caused of congyled phlegm/ or other cold moisture/ anoint the reins with honey only that powder of calomynt hath be sudden in and cast powder of colofyne thereon bound with a cloth when the patient goeth to the stole lay the powder thereof with a little cotton to the fundament. So was the mother of platayre made hold/ which platayre was a master at Salerne. To cleanse the superfluity of the matryce/ make fomentation of water that it hath be sudden in/ and that is very good/ as the women of salerne say that hath proved it.    

¶ De centaurea. Centory Ca: xci.  
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CEntaurea is centaury: It is hot & dry in the third degree. It is a very bitter herb/ and therefore it is called earth gall. The great centaury i● of most might. And Constantyn saith that the rote of bigest is dry in the second degree/ & is bitter with a sweetness/ it hath a raukenesse as eldre/ & is gluey or gleymy and hath virtue to comoyne & sowdre by the bitterness thereof. It hath virtue diuretic/ to consume and draw/ the most virtue is in the flowers & leaves. It ought to be gathered when it beareth flowers and than be hanged to dry in a shadowy place When centaury is found in recepts/ it is to wite the greatest. The drink that it is sudden in with sugar to delay the bitterness is good against opilation or stopping of the liver of the milt/ of the reins/ and of bladder.  

For strangury. A  
¶ For strangury and dyssury/ seethe this herb in wine and oil/ and lay it a great while to the membres afore named. Ointment made with juice thereof or with powder of the herb with wax & oil is good also. ¶ For the milt or the liver make syrup in this manner/ seethe the roots of smallage of percely/ and fennel in juice of centaury and when they be well sudden strain them/ and in the straining put thereto sugar: This syrup is good for long ycteryce or jaundice. And if ye have no juice/ seethe the roots of smallage/ percely/ and fennel in water/ and in the same water put powder of centaury/ and make a syrup with sugar   

¶ For ylyake passion B  
¶ Against ylyake passion make a clystre with powder of centaury and salt water/ but first make a clystre mollyfycatyfe. Take also at the mouth .v. drams of this powder with a confection called benedicta with warm water/ and in this manner it is good against the palsy.   

¶ For worms in the eeres: C  
¶ For worms in the eeres/ put the juice of centaury/ and lekes in to the eeres. And for worms in the belly/ take the juice or powder thereof with honey.   

¶ For the sight. D  
¶ For to clear the sight. Take the juice of the rote of the bigest centaury/ and meddle it with rose water/ and anoint the eyes therewith/ for to close and resowdre wounds/ and cuts/ stamp the rote thereof/ & lay to the wound and it will resowdre it ●f it be laid to with flesh it rejoineth as Constantyne saith.   

¶ For the web in the eye F  
¶ For the web in the eye make a colyce of the powder of centaury with rose water and it is good if the web be great/ but if it be little put it not thereto/ for it will gnaw/ and frete the substance of the eye   

¶ For hemorrhoids: G  
¶ Against the emoroides put cotton in oil of muscat with powder of centaury and lay to them.   

¶ To provoke flowers H  
¶ To provoke flowers restrained/ take a gum named serapini and meddle it with powder of centaury/ and order it beneath. Or make a suppository with powder of it confyct with lies of oil. Also if a passayre be made with gall of a bull and juice of centaury meddled together/ provoketh them and causeth a deed child to issue. For the same doth water that centaury hath be sudden in. Constantine saith if this water be sudden in a gum called serapyn that it resowdred wounds/ a dram and a half of centaury ministered with wine easeth the ache of the womb caused of gross humours and winds. The juice thereof meddle with honey cleareth the darkness of the eyes:    

¶ De Cassea lignea. Ca xcii.  
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CAssea lignea. vel xilocassia is hot and dry in the third degree It is the bark of a little tree that groweth toward the end of babylon/ there be two manners of casse: One is casia fistula/ the other is cassia lignea/ but it is not found that casia fistula is taken for cassie only/ but cassia lignea is/ and there be two manners of cassia lignea. One is like cynamum/ drawing to colour of russet and hath a sharp savour/ or taste meddled with sweetness of smell and that is the best but it is not used in medicine. The other kind draweth also toward russet or grey and hath in parts divers colours That is to be choose that boweth and breaketh not lightly/ & when it is broken it hath white speckles within but it hath more of grey. It is sharp of savour and very sweet smelling. It may be kept ten years/ it is sometime contrefayt by meddling of roots of capparis that hath a bitter smell. It hath virtue diuretic/ by subtylnesse of substance and it hath virtue to consume humours by complexion and quality/ and it hath virtue to comfort by good odour and smell.  

¶ For cold rheum A  
¶ Against cold rheum and other passions of the heed as sweming and such other qualities: Take iii pylles of cassie line of laudane/ and storax confyet with juice of wormwood when the cause cometh of the heed self/ this comforteth the brain greatly. Make suffumigation in this manner Cast cassia line on hot cools & sprinkle rose water thereon/ & receive the smoke at the mouth:   

¶ For strangury B  
¶ For strangury and dyssury/ and pain in the reins and also of the bladder/ the wine that it is sudden in given with the sede of basylycon & seethe the powder with oil of musk or with oil olive with the which oil anoint the yard/ and the gryndes/ and the other sore or aching places.   

¶ For the liver. C  
¶ Against opilation of the liver of the milt/ of the reins/ and of the bladder use the decoction thereof/ or the syrup that is made with it.   

¶ For the stomach D  
¶ Against coldness of the stomach/ and against the diseases afore named/ take drink that cassea line/ mastic/ and fennel seed hath be sudden in fasting. Pyment or clarey made of honey with wine that it was sudden in warmeth the stomach/ and helpeth to make digestion:   

¶ For stench of the mouth E  
¶ Against stench of the mouth/ make piles of cassia line/ these pills be good against all pains of the entrails caused of cold.   

¶ For stench of the armholes. F  
¶ Against stinking of the armholes/ & corruption/ and for to scour the gums first pluck away the heres of the arm holes/ and than wash them with white wine and rose water that cassia line was sudden in/ and for the gums make a gargarism. ¶ For to prevoke flowers retained and to comfort the matryce/ make suppository of cotton wet in oil of musk or olive/ that powder of cassia line was sudden in the bark thereof also all hole sudden in new oil of musk and than ministered below provoketh marvelously.   

For the heart. G  
¶ Against passion of the heart and against swooning/ take the syrup made with cassia line/ and roses/ and the bone of a● hearts heart.   

¶ For the milt. H  
¶ Against pain of the milt/ and of the liver/ it is also good if it be laid to when it is sudden. It is also good against costiveness.    

¶ De castoreo. Beaver bollocks. Ca xciii  
CAstoreum is hot and dry in the second degree. It is the genitors or stones of a be'st called castor/ beaver/ or a brock. some say that when he smelleth the hunters that chase him to have  beaver breaking a sapling beside a spring his genitors/ that he biteth them of and letteth them fall/ but that is not so/ for that be'st is not of such discretion/ and also the hunters chase him more to have his skin than his stones/ & when they be cut of they ought to be put in a close place/ & let them dry. Those of the young castors be not so good as the old nor of so great effect/ and this castoreum is soft/ and white/ when the castor is of perfit age/ or a little over middle age/ it is of great virtue/ nor the castor that is of to great age is not of so good affect/ some do countrefayt it in this manner. They take the skin of castoreum/ and a fresh or new genytoure & fill it with blood and sinews/ other put blood earth & chalk/ & other do thus/ they put in to the skin blood & serapinun/ sinews & pepper that it may have a sharp savour. Castoreum is to be chosen that hath a mean savour or taste & is gleymy/ and hath a marvelous horrible smell/ & aught to have meddled sinews throughout/ & cleaving to the skin on all sides. It may be kept vi years in great virtue/ but it is better to have always new if it may be. When it is put in medicine the utter skin ought to be taken away/ and to take that within/ & weigh it & put it in medicine/ it hath virtue to divide and waste humours/ and principally it hath virtue to comfort sinewy members.  

¶ Against epilence. A  
¶ Against epilence & other colds causes of the heed/ put half a dram in to the nostrils/ & also drink two or three drams with the juice of rue/ or with wine that it was sudden in.   

¶ For palsy of tongue. B  
¶ Against palsy of the tongue/ hold the powder of castoreum under the tongue till it be melted dissolveth & wasted by itself.   

¶ For palsy of all the body C  
¶ Against palsy of all the body seethe castoreum/ rue & sawge & drink the broth thereof   

¶ For palsy of membres. D  
¶ Against palsy of members or limb/ seethe castoreum & make fomentation of times about the skin/ & lay is thereto.   

¶ For gomorre: E  
¶ Against gomorre seethe castoreum in juice of agnus castus or outsey with a little vinegar/ & lay it often to low part of the belly to the reins & to the yard.   

¶ For forgetfulness. F  
¶ Against lethargy or forgetfulness provoke sneezing with castoreum/ for it moveth and comforteth the brain. Or make confection of castoreum of mints/ & juice of rue with vinegar/ & shave the heed/ & rub the hinder part of the heed therewith & lay it thereto put the powder thereof in to the nose with juice of rue/ or else receive the smoke at the nose.    

¶ De cubebe. Ca xciiii.  
CVbebe is hot & dry temperately/ it is the fruit of a young tree that groweth beyond the see in the wild ynde & it may be kept x. years or there about in great virtue/ that is best that hath a mean sharp savour or taste/ & hath a sweet flavour or scent  

¶ For faintness. A  
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¶ It is good against feebleness of the heart faintness or swooning in this manner/ take the quantity of four drams of cubebes with juice of the rote or leaves of panay/ it is very good therefore. ¶ Against rheum of the heed/ & to comfort the brain/ let it be oftentimes smelled to & put in to the nose ¶ For coldness of the stomach take the powder thereof in meat. ¶ Against ill colour of the face caused of cold do make payment of wine with honey and other spices with the most part of cubebes.    

¶ Capilli veneris. Maydi here. Ca xcv  
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¶ CApille veneris is an herb so named. It is hot & dry temperately but by the subtlety thereof it hath virtue dyuretike. That that is new hath good virtue/ and it may not be kept long/ the leaves be good in medicine and not the rote. ¶ Against chanffing or heat of the liver. Take the breath that it is sudden in with sugar and make a syrup thereof.  

¶ For chanffing. A  
¶ Against chanffing lay it to with bends or rolls wet in the juice thereof or with the her be stamped. This herb sudden in wine or in the self juice drunken with wine is good against venom/ and giveth remedy to ill humours running to the stomach.   

¶ For the hairs. B  
¶ Against alopyce/ that is when the here falleth/ if it be sudden in water & the heed washed therewith it cleanseth the scurf and filthiness. It is good for them that hath a great cough & voideth matter as it were an impostume/ and that have the longs hurt or wasted/ and against all griefs of the longs/ and in the breast if it be sudden green/ and used hot or warm.    

¶ De Cipresso. Cypress. Ca xcvi.   depiction of plant 
Cypress is hot in the first degree & dry in the second. It is a tree/ the leaves/ the fruit/ the flowers/ and the wood is good in use of medicine. The apples thereof been stiptic/ binding/ and strengting. The leaves and the wood are diuretic ¶ Against flux of the body caused of weakness of the virtue retentive/ let the patient eat of these apples newly gathered/ or put the powder of them that be dry in his meats/ and drink the water that they be sudden in/ & make decoction of them and put the water thereof in his wine.  
¶ Against dyssury or pain of pissing/ lethe these apples in rain water and lay them to the stomach/ reins/ and above the yard.  

¶ For strangury. A  
¶ Against strangury and dysfury take the powder of the wood or leaves of cypress.   

¶ For ylyake passion. B  
¶ Against ylyake passion/ put the powder of this wood or the leaves in the vessel with wine when the wine is made/ and this wine will preserve for that sickness greatly. The wine that the powder of the wood or of the leaves is sudden in during the acces of the ylyake pain is good against hemorrhoids/ if they run to much/ make fomentation of the fruit and leaves of cypress sudden in rain water/ and in the same water warm/ let the patient lie/ & than give him of the powder. These things in his meats/ and water of the decoction in his drink is very good.    

¶ De cinamomo. Cynamome/ or canell. Ca xcvii.  
CYnamome is canell. It is hot and in the third degree and it is dry in the second. There be two miners of it. The one is thick and is somewhat  depiction of plant hollow and gross or course/ and is the bark of a tree The other is finer and is all hollow/ and not so thick/ and some say that it is the bark of a little tree. They be found both in Ind/ & in europe. that which is course ought to be put in medicines vomytyves/ and the finer in other medicines. That is to be chosen that is fine and small with a sharp taste sweet smell/ and grey of colour. This canell is called Cynamomum alichimos and alichimum. That which is whytysshe or black is nought if ye will choose it or know by the mouth or taste which is good cleanse your mouth fro water/ or spattyll/ or of slime that is therein. for by such moistness some a thing is judged to be good that is nought. It is kept ten years/ and hath virtue to comfort the brain by good odour/ by the glutynesyte thereof it rejoineth and dissolveth/ and comforteth digestion It is put in sauces to cause appetite this wise/ meddle powder of canell with percely sawge and vinegar and make sauce thereof.  

For the breathe. A  
¶ To have a sweet breathe chaw canoll/ for it maketh a good odour in the mouth.   

For the gums. B  
¶ Against corruption and rottenness of the goumes/ first wash them with salt water/ and rub them till they bleed/ & till the rotten moistures come out/ & than wash them with wine that canell was sudden in/ and that done lay on them two parts of powder of the great consolyda/ that is camfery/ and the third part of canell/ and it will help/ and ease marvelously.   

¶ For chipping C  
¶ For new clyftes or chipping of the lips/ and to other sores and wounds/ lay the powder of canell in the clyftes and than bind them well together or sow them ¶ Against passion of the heart/ and swooning/ take powder of canell with the powder of the leaves of gylofres. The course canell is put in medicines of vomit because it reprymeth/ abateth and demynysshed the violence of other medicines/ as of tapsus and such other/ also comforteth the stomach and thus it doth two profits in the said medicines.    

¶ De camedrios. Germaundre. Ca xcviii  
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CAmedryos is hot and dry in the third degree/ it is an herb called Germaundrea or quercula minor the less quercle the great quercle is called camephiteos that is mederacle/ Camedrios is the less quercle and germaundre/ and because that camedrios and camephiteos have virtue by themself/ therefore shall be spoken of them both in one chapter. They ought to be gathered at the end of prymtyme or vere when they bear flowers their roots must to be cut & hanged in shadow they have virtue diuretic & temperatte  

¶ For strangury A  
¶ Against strangury/ dyssury/ ylyake passion/ and opilation of the liver and milt seethe these said herbs or one of them in wine or oil/ or salted water/ and laid to the reins to the neither part of the belly and membres thereabout. ¶ Against ylyca passion/ take the powder of camedryos with salt water/ honey/ and oil/ and minister them with a clystre.   

¶ For the liver milt reins & bladder. B  
¶ Against oppilation of the milt/ of the liver of the reins/ & of the ways of urine/ seethe these herbs in oil & lay them to the grievous places. Take also electuary confyct with honey and of two parts of the said two herbs/ or of one of them/ & one part of cuscuta or dodyr/ & saxyfrage/ & who hath this electuary he needeth not to seek litrotipon/ nor pulner ducis/ for this breaketh the stone marvelously/ & helpeth against all stopping of urine:   

¶ For the milt: C  
¶ For hardness of the milt & liver/ make decoction in oil of their powder or with one of them & lay it upon the liver or milt. If ye have the herbs green lay them to step in wine ix days till they be rotten therein & than seethe them till the wine be half wasted than let the residue be hard wrong that all the humour may come out/ of the which water make an ointment with wax and oil/ and that is good for the milt:   

¶ Against vomit. D  
¶ Against vomit caused of cold or of boisterous winds in the breast raising or lifting up the meat to vomit/ seethe these herbs or powder of them a great while in salted water/ or in kindly salt water/ than put thereto oil with a little vyneygre/ and make thereof a plaster and lay it to the stomach or breast. This is a great remedy for vomit of what cause so ever come.   

¶ For worms in the womb. B  
¶ For worms in the womb the powder of one of these herbs with honey sleeth them ¶ Against rheum or pose/ put the powder of these two herbs in a little bag and lay them hot to the heed:   

For fistules in the heed. C  
¶ Against fistules of the heed or of the beard/ seethe bitter lupyns in salt water/ & put vinegar to them/ and than strain it and in the straining put of the powder of these two herbs or of one of them/ and wash the heed well therewith. ¶ Against palsy/ seethe these herbs in wine and lay thereto. The powder hereof rejoineth and sowdreth wounds/ if it be laid thereon: ¶ To cleanse the matryce and to provoke the flowers retained and to chafe or warm the matryce that is cold of phlegmatic humours/ seethe these herb a long time in good wine/ and as long let the woman wash her with the hot liquor/ and lay the herbs upon conduit and there about Also the powder of them sudden in oil/ & cotton wet in the said oil & put in the orifice/ or the same powder confect with cyclamen/ or malumterre/ and laid upon it.    

¶ De camephitheos. Mederacle: Ca xcix.  
CAmephiteos is hot and dry in the third degree. It dissolveth & wasteth all windiness and swelling caused thereof. It is laratyfe and of course  depiction of plant humours/ and it comforteth/ the inward membres/ and is aperatyfe of the livers of the milt and unstopeth them marvelously/ it provoketh urine/ and retained flowers/ and healeth the jaundice. Three drams taken of it with of dry figs toasted or sudden/ it destroyeth all the pain of the reins/ if a dram and a half be taken it purgeth the belly of all cold humours/ & winds/ if it be sudden with honey it healeth the haunches or flanks/ & to soldered wounds in rotten places & taketh away the ache of women's breasts:  
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¶ De Caruo Ca C.  
carvi is hot and dry in the third degree. carvi is an herb/ the sede thereof is also named carvi. There is great quantity of it found in Cycyll & other places beyond the see. It may be kept good .v. year and more. It hath virtue diuretic/ and to provoke urine/ and therefore the decoction thereof is good against strangury and dissury. It putteth out and wasteth humours.  

¶ For digestion. A  
¶ The powder thereof taken with meats comforteth digestion/ and exyleth winds in the stomach.    

¶ De Cimino. Comyn. sede. Ca C.i.  
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CIminum cumin is hot and dry in the second degree. It is the seed of an herb growing in great quamlyte and because enough is found thereof it is not countrefayt nor mingled. It may be kept ten years It hath virtue diuretic to put out and void winds. If it be put in meats/ sauces/ or pottage it comforteth the digestion.  

¶ For the stomach. A  
¶ The wine that common and fenel seed is sudden in ceaseth the pain of the stomach and of the bowels caused of wind.   

¶ For cough. B  
¶ Against cough coming of cold drink wine that common is sudden in with dry figs. Electuary also confyct with common and fennel sede/ and burst or honey is good against the cold cough/ and in this electuary needeth not to have dyarris nor dyaciminum ¶ Against swelling of the cheeks & parties about the neck meddle common & dry figs together/ and seethe them in wine and make a plaster and lay to the sore place.   

¶ For the pose. C  
¶ Against rheum or pose meddle powder of common and bays berries/ and put them hot in a bag/ & lay them so hot to the heed.   

¶ For strangury D  
¶ Against strangury & dyssury & against other pains caused of cold seethe common in wine and lay thereto.   

¶ For blood in the eyes E  
¶ Against blood appearing in the eyen/ meddle powder of common with white of an egg but first bake the white of the egg upon a hot tile stone and cut it in two/ & lay it warm upon the eye when it is new hurt/ and or the humours be comen in to it Other chaw common in their mouth & keep it there a good while/ and than breathe or blow in the eye only without putting of any substance of common.   

¶ For blackness of a stroke F  
¶ Against blackness or blueness of stroke or fall while it is new/ delay powder of common with wax by the fire/ & laid to it is a sovereign remedy. ¶ For pain of the stomach confyet the sede of common in sugar & take a spoonful of it half an hour or ye go to bed/ & drink not after it/ and it will comfort the stomach greatly.    

¶ De cicuta. Hemlock Ca C.ii  
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CIcuta is hot and dry in the third degree as Macer saith. It hath virtue to draw and consume/ or put out/ to dissolve and unbind. It is not used in inward medycyns/ because it is venomous in his substance/ and qualities and spreadeth and unbindeth the spirits of the body in such wise that they fail utterly/ & by default of them the body mortifieth and dieth. The ancient men died put it in their medicines because they were more boisterous and stronger people. The most virtue of it is in the rote/ and secondly in the leaves/ and be less hot and dry/ and it is more cold and dry in the sede/ & therefore the seed is sometime put in medicines for the milt in this wise.  

¶ For the milt. A  
¶ Put of this herb with half a pound of armenyac. ix. days in vinegar/ and the x. day seethe them till the armenyake be melted/ and settled. Than strain it through a strong cloth/ and boil it well again upon the fire/ and put thereto wax & oil and make an ointment for the milt that is very hard/ and against hard impostumes/ and against arthritic gouts/ & against epilence as Constantin saith.   

¶ For apostumes B  
¶ Against apostumes seethe it in wine/ & than stamp it with grease/ & lay it to them   

¶ For the pain of the breath C  
¶ Against pain of the breathe seethe this herb in water/ and therewith wash and rub the patient before and behind fro middle to the neck.   

¶ For gouts. D  
¶ Against gout arthritic & podagre bake the roots thereof in paste/ and cleave them in the mids and lay them to the place. It is a sovereign remedy.   

¶ For Iliac passion. E  
¶ Against ylyake passion/ strangury and dyssury. seethe the roots in strong wine with oil/ than seethe the herb and lay it to the grief.   

¶ For to cleanse the matryce. F  
¶ For to cleanse the matryce of course and gleumy humours/ & to provoke retained flowers/ make fomentation of wine and salt water that hemlokes hath be sudden in   

¶ For kyrnelles. G  
¶ For dry kernels in the neck after that ye have used diuretike herbs make a plaster of the two parts of hemlokes/ and the third part of scabyous. And know ye that they that use hemlokes in meat and drinks shall be in peril of death for it is deadly If a maid anoint her breasts often with juice of hemlokes/ they will not wax big nor grow. It drieth the milk in women's breasts if it be laid on them. If a plaster be laid to the low part of the belly it wasted the appetite of lechery.   

¶ For swelling of the feet. H  
¶ Against podagre meddle the juice of hemlokes with lethargy/ and scomine of silver and anoint it therewith. Also by itself it is good for all swelling caused of heat.    

¶ De Croco. Saffron. Ca C.iii  
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CRocus is saffron/ and there be two kinds/ one is named crocus ortensis that is garden saffron that is set or sown. The other is called orientalis saffron of orient/ because it groweth in the east/ without any preparation or labour. This orient saffron is put in vomit medycyns. When saffron flowereth in the mids of the flowers spring three chives or small flowers that be reed which is saffron. It may be kept ten years in bounty with in a close bag of leather. Saffron that staineth the hands that toucheth it is mingled and dysceyted/ and is a token that it is old but it is wet for to cause it seem new/ and because it hath be wet it staineth lightly/ and so doth not the good. It hath virtue to comfort it is of temperate qualities/ & of good odour.  

¶ For the stomach A  
¶ For feebleness of the stomach of the heart and disposition of swooning and faintness use it this wise. Take orient saffron and dry it on a hot tile/ and rub it to powder/ and temper it with wine or vinegar/ & put it to the meat when it seethe For one dram dressed in this manner staineth more than two otherwise. And if it be tomoche used it breedeth lothelynesse to the stomach & loseth the appetite It ought not to be given to a choleric person/ for provoketh vomit.   

¶ For the eyes. A  
¶ For redness and web in the eye. Make powder of orient saffron meddled with gleyre of an egg/ and with cotton wet therein lay it to the eye.    

¶ De Cypero. Ca C.iiii  
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CIperus is hot and dry in the second degree. Ciperus is a wydred substance hollow and light and is the rote of the three cornered rysshe/ that groweth beyond the see/ and that that groweth there is the best/ and ever the bigger the better. It may be kept ii years. The Ciperus that groweth in other regions is less/ and is not so good/ and may not be kept but a year Ciperus is to be choose that is very rugged and full of twigs/ and hath a citrine or yellow colour when it is broken/ and that is not easy to be powdered It hath diuretic virtue coming of his substance. It is found & gathered at all times/ but that is best that is gathered at the end of prymtyme or ver. When it is gathered lay it three days in the son that it rote not by his moistness/ & after hang it in a close place.  

¶ For urine. A  
¶ Against pain of the urine as strangury and dyssury. Take great quantity of roots of Ciperus broken and sudden in oil & lay them between both the thighs/ and for certain it will provoke & cause urine/ and void the humours that causeth the letting. For the same beat rote of Ciperus and seethe them with a little oil of musk and strain them. The same broth put in to the yard with a clystre will break the stone.   

¶ For the stomach. B  
¶ For pain of the stomach and of the bowels caused of cold and wind/ lay to the said plaster as is written afore for strangury and dyssury. Or let the patient put the broth or wine that ciperus & mastyc is sudden in/ in to his drink/ for it comforteth the digestion. The juice of Ciperus taken with wine voideth the pain of the stomach and of the bowels caused of cold and wind.   

¶ For lethargy C  
¶ Against lethargy stamp or chop the roots of Ciperus very small/ & seethe them in oil till the oil be nigh wasted. Than lay the residue that is left on the hot coals/ & let the patient take the smoke thereof at his mouth and nose/ and it will do him ease. The powder of ciperus put in to wounds draweth the rotting out. But when it is out lay no more for it will frete the good flesh. It ought to be put in medicines that bind and resowdre wounds Ciperus that hath a whytysshe pale colour or earthy is to be refused.    

¶ De Calamo aromatico. Ca C.u.  
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CAlamus aromaticus is hot and dry in the second degree. It is the rote of a little tree that is like to a reed or rysshe and hath a very sweet smell It is concaved and hollow. For when it is gathered there is a little stick or hard pith taken out of it/ and sometime it is let therein still to cause it weigh the more/ and there be two manners of it. One is found in Perce having a citrine or yellow colour. The other is found in Ind and is wytysshe and powdreth not lightly when it is cracked or broken. It may be kept vii years good. It hath virtue to comfort against pain of the stomach caused of cold and wind. If three dragmos thereof in powder meddled with juice of wormwood in warm wine and drunken  

¶ For digestion A  
¶ To comfort digestion take the powder of it with powder of cinnamon.  
¶ Against cordyake passion or faintness of the heart/ seethe calomus hole in water/ & temper the pacyentis drink with the said liquor.   

¶ For costiveness. B  
¶ Against costiveness or tonasmon/ lay the powder upon the fundament that is straneth out.    

¶ De Corallo. Coral. Ca C.vi.  
 coral (?)  
COrallus is coral. It is cold & dry in the second degree. It is a manner of stony substance that is found in parties of the see/ and specially in hollow/ and cavy hills that been in the see/ and groweth as a manner of a gluey humour/ and cleaveth to the stones. The which by the proper heat of the see is dried and converted in to substance like to a stone and that which aboundeth most of the parties of the element of fire is reed And that which aboundeth most of parties of water is white coral. The white is colder and not so dry as the reed. They be both good in medicine/ how be it the white coral ought not to be taken but it be expressed in the receipt. That is to be chosen that is smooth/ reed and clear/ and the reader that it is the better it is. And that the is so reed is to be had in medycyn to make the face clear/ but to put in medicine to be taken at the mouth it needeth not to have so very clear. It may be kept as long as a man will without eupayring. It hath virtue to comfort/ dystreyne/ and to cleanse the spirits/ and hath secret propryetes against the falling evil. And some say that the reed coral keepeth the house that it is in fro lightning/ thunder/ and tempest. It is good against the pain & dimness of the eyen/ and wasteth the web called pannus/ and other rottenness/ and cleanseth them/ if coral be very small beaten to powder and meddled with other liquor appropried for the foresaid things & put in the eyes. Coral cleanseth the teeth if they be rob therewith/ and healeth the gums fro all corruptions And Galyen saith if coral be brent/ & given to drink with cold water it stauncheth blood.  

¶ For bleeding at the nose A  
¶ Against flux of blood at the nose put powder of coral on cotton that is confyct with juice of bursa pastoris or cassewede/ and make pylles of them and put in to the nose.   

¶ For bleeding at the mouth. C  
¶ Against emoptyke passion/ that is when blood cometh out at the mouth. and if this blood come fro the parties of the breast or the membres within/ it called spiritual membres make confection with the two parts of fine powder of coral with water of barley or with water that dragagant hath been sudden in and make pyrles/ and let the patient hold them long upon his tongue one after an other/ and than swallow them by little and little as they waste/ & it is a general rule that all medycyns given against the sicknesses of the membres of the breast ought to be holden long in the mouth that they may mengle with the sp●tyll/ and made moist & soft by themself/ and so little/ and little pass in to the said membres. And if the blood at the mouth come fro the murytyfe membres/ as the stomach/ the liver/ and the milt/ give the powder with juice of plantain. And in this manner it is good also for flux of the belly or blood caused of the upper bowels And for the same this powder taken with a rear egg is good. But if the flux of the belly be great by vice of the neither bowels/ minister the said powder and juice of plantain with a clystre.   

¶ For the matryce D  
¶ Against flux of blood that cometh of the matryce/ let the powder of coral be confyct with an other confection called athanasull/ or only with juice of plantain/ and make thereof a suppository and put in to the conduit/ or the powder only laid to the place.   

¶ For the mouth. E  
¶ Against corrysyon/ gnawing/ or fretting of the mouth and of the gums/ first wash them with salt water or with water & gleyre of an egg beat together/ than make powder the two parts of coral/ & the third of roses/ and lay to the gums.   

¶ For the gums. F  
¶ Against bleeding of the gums/ put powder of coral/ and of anthera that is the yellow in the mids of the rose upon the gums or confyct with honey/ and the gums anointed therewith The powder of coral put in to wounds closeth and re●owdreth them.    

¶ De Cepe. Onion. Ca C.vii  
CEpe domestica/ is the common or tame onion. It is hot and dry in the third degree/ but Avicen saith that it is hot in the third degree & moist in the second/ and the substance is gluey stiptic and venomous/ and these conditions hath the long onion more than the round. And like wise the reed onion is more stiptic than the white and the white hath more vyscosyte than the reed/ & hath more raw than sudden or roasted. And he saith that if onions be often eaten they cause  depiction of plant pain and swelling of the heed. But Diascorides & many other auctors of physic saith that it hath not so ill proprieties and be not all of accord in that he saith. Onion eaten causeth great thirst/ taketh away the ill smake of the mouth/ it tendereth the belly and loseth it. The fundament anointed with juice of the blades of onions drieth emeroydes. Also the juice of onion meddled with oil loseth the womb if the fundament be anointed therewith. A master named Esculapius saith that the onion comforteth the stomach/ causeth good appetite/ and breedeth good colour.  

¶ For biting of a mad dog. A  
¶ Against biting of a dog/ bete the onion with honey and vinegar/ or be sudden with honey and wine and laid plaster wise helpeth moche. Diascorides saith if an onion be brayed with salt and rue/ & made a plaster on the tongue three days or on the belly it looseth the belly marvelously Also the juice put in the nostrils purgeth the ill humours that noyeth the heed. Also this juice drunken and ordered beneath in cotton causeth the flowers retained to run:   

¶ For swollen feet. B  
¶ Also onion beaten and laid on feet swollen & hard giveth great remedy. Or let the juice be meddled with grease of a hen in ma●●er of an ointment/ & anoint it often   

¶ For the teeth. C  
¶ Also who so rubbeth their teeth with an onion every morning/ or holdeth the juice in his mouth shall never feel the pain of t●the ache. Also if it be eaten with breed it healeth the sores/ and wounds in the mouth. Also moche eating of onions causeth appetite of sleep. Galyen saith that onions noyeth choleric persons/ and helpeth flow matykes. Isaac saith that an onion is hot in the fourth degree/ and moist in the third. It hath a tart moistness whereby 〈◊〉 engendereth evil humours in the stomach/ and causeth thirst/ & breedeth wind and pain in the heed/ and disposeth to madness for the evil famysshenesse that mounteth to the brain. And therefore they that useth it to much commonly fall in the manyake passion and in the nights so fearful things in their sleep and have melancolyke dreams/ and specially it cometh to them that have been lately seek and eat or use onions to moche. But if they be used for medicyns reasonably as they ought to be the cause heat in the body/ and maketh it slender/ lank/ and lean/ and dysparseth the gluey humours. They have virtue to open the ends and extremities of veins/ they provoke urine and the flowers. The appeaseth thirst and cause appetite. Also they rarefy/ and open the outward parties of the skin and thereby cause sweat. They loose the womb because their tart heat/ and dryness constraineth and pricketh nature. They increase the seed of generation by their moistness how be it they nourishing is ill who so will that they give good nourishing/ must fethe them first in one water than in another/ and specially if they be sudden with fat flesh in pottage with good & sweet smelling things. Garlic nourisheth little and noyeth choleric persons/ and them that be naturally hot of complexion. But if they that be of cold and moist complexion do eat them the do provoke urine and tempereth the womb. And be clean contrary for them of hot complexion. But who so will that they do no harm to any that eateth them/ seethe them first in water and than confyct them with vinegar/ and broth of fat flesh/ for garlic is good in medicines and profitable. For it is good against biting of a wood dog. And who so eateth them & drinketh good wine/ giveth remedy against biting of serpent/ and for them that have cold sickness it is as good as treacle.    

¶ De cretano. Ca C.viii  
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CRetanus is an herb called Croyt marine. It is hot and dry in the third degree/ and it groweth commonly in watery places or by the see/ and is seldom found in other places/ and therefore it hath virtue diuretic and provocatyve of urine.  

¶ For the urine. A  
¶ It is good and profitable against letting of urine as strangury and dyssury as Galyen saith.   

¶ For the stone. B  
¶ It is also good against the stone in the bladder in this manner Take the sede of this herb cretan with the leaves/ and about as much of tragacanth/ and beat them in a mortar. And strain the juice and put it & a fyole of glass/ or in an earthen pot close stopped/ and give the patient ii or iii drams at going to bed/ and in the morning a little after his first urine/ or he eat or drink any thing/ for it breaketh the stone.   

¶ For ylyake passion C  
¶ Aaynst ylyake passion/ seethe this herb in great quantity with salt water and with wine and oil and let the patient bathe therein to the navel. And if it can not be had in great quantity/ seethe this herb and lay it plasterwise to the painful place/ use this herb or the water that it was sudden in/ and it provoketh urine   

¶ For the belly. D  
¶ Against gnawing of the belly/ make a ●lyster with this herb sudden in salt water with oil and honey/ but first take a clystre mollyfycatyfe.    

¶ De Costo. Cost marry Ca C.ix  
COstus is hot & dry in the third degree It is a rote that groweth in Jude and is called cost/ and the be two manners. The one groweth in Ind & hath a duskysshe colour/ and is the strongest in operation/ and most violent The other groweth in araby and hath a white colour/ & is more tempered than the other/  depiction of plant Cost is to be taken that powdreth not when it is broken and hath no little holes/ and hath a bitter smell with some sourness. It may be kept ten years. It hath virtue to comfort by the savour that draweth to eygrenesse. And it hath virtue diuretic by the qualities/ and bitterness. It divideth/ and putteth out humours by heaviness thereof.  

¶ For the milt. A  
¶ Against hardness of the milt and liver caused of cold the wine that the electuary called dyacostum hath be sudden in profiteth greatly to the milt. It is to had of appoticaryes. We use cost also outward for the sickness of the milt in this manner/ make an ointment convenable of wax and oil with powder of cost. Or else take marrubium that is horehonde and lay it a fortnight in wine and oil and than seethe it to half/ and strain it/ and in the straining put thereto wax and powder of cost and make an ointment thereof.   

¶ For conception. B  
¶ To help a woman to conceive if the letting be of coldness/ let the powder of cost be confyct with oil of musk/ or at least with oil olive. In the which wet cotton and lay to the place of generation. Or let the woman receive it with a tonell It cleanseth and chauffeth the matryce.   

¶ For the stomach. C  
¶ Against pain of the stomach caused of cold/ make a plaster of powder of mastic/ and olybane/ and powder of Cost of a like moche/ and confyct them with wax and oil of roses/ and of musk if it may be had/ and lay it plasterwise on the stomach/ if there be three ounces of wax & oil sometime it put to spyknade/ nutmegs or claws and such other spices   

¶ For the heed D  
¶ Against pain of the heed caused of cold be take the broth that it is sudden in.   

¶ For worms in the belly E  
¶ Against worms in the belly/ meddle the powder with honey and use it.    

¶ De galligaria.  
CAprague that some call galligaria groweth in laboured & moist places. It hath virtue cold and dry.  

¶ For flux of the womb. A  
¶ Against flux of the womb seethe this herb in rain water and wash your feet therewith and it will bind and restrain the flix.   

¶ For itch in the legs. B  
¶ Against itch caused of salt phlegm in the legs. seethe this herb and put the broth in a sponge and lay it to the place & it will destroy it.    

¶ Cantabrum. Bran Ca C.x.  
CAntabrum is the husk of wheat and is named bran/ it is hot & dry temperately. It is dyaforityke that is to say it hath virtue resolutive in  two large sacks full of small items wasting/ & devyding humours & winds because the it lesseth than & turneth than in to subtile vapours & so putteth them one When it is steeped in warm water it appeaseth and saugeth aches/ & causeth them to become moist and supple by the moistness thereof.  

¶ For yliake passion. A  
¶ Against ylyake passion/ and against pain of the reins/ and letting of urine let bran confyct with honey subtle and white/ & that it be not to soft nor to hard or stiff and put thereto wine so that it be not to thin nor to tycke/ & when it hath sudden a great while spread it on a cloth/ and lay it to the aching place/ and lay it to often and new so that it wax not cold and it will give perfit health.   

¶ For the stomach B  
¶ The same is good for the pain of the stomach comen of cold. Master platayre proved this remedy in one that had such pain in his pap that he could not stand upright. It was cause of cold/ for the pulse was temperate enough.   

¶ For ylyake passion. C  
¶ Against ylyake passion the water the it is sudden in after that it is strained to be minister in clyster/ for it softeneth sufficiently. And it is used for to soften when there is none other mollyfycatyves.   

¶ For dry cough. D  
¶ Against the dry cough/ and against cough caused of cold/ & against plemesy that is an impostume of the rib/ and against the impostume in the longs and against such like sicknesses do as it followeth seethe barley in water a good while and when it is strained put bran in to it and seethe and strain it again/ and use it warm.    

¶ De Colophonia. Ca C.xi  
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COlophonia is the gum of a tree that groweth in great quantity in grece & therefore it is called pitch of grece/ and it is also found in other places. It is hot in the second degree/ & dry in the first. That is to be chosen that is black and shineth within. There is sometime earth meddled with it but that is nought It hath virtue to chafe and to fasten by his gommosyte and cleaving.  

¶ Against costiveness. A  
¶ Against costiveness and binding of the breast caused of cold meddle equally powder of colophony and powder of cresses & lay it to the reins and anoyted with warm honey and than be bound to with a bend and a fume of colophony be taken beneath   

¶ To take here fro the face. B  
¶ For to take here fro the face/ & to white it/ take iii ounces of colophony/ & two of mastic/ and a little of armonyake/ & three of orpiment/ and beat them each by themself and than melt them in a great clean vessel. But melt the colophony first and then the mastic/ and at last put the drop of pure armoniac/ and the opyment/ and strained over cold water/ & let the said straining be gathered & chafed between the hands. This ointment in the beginning is black/ but at last when it is well handled it whyteth. And therefore when ye will taken away any here take alytel of this ointment and melt it at the fire and when it is warm lay it on the face or other place that ye would have away the here/ and let it lie there an hour or there about/ and it will take away the here/ & cleanse the face/ but let the place be dry when ye lay it on & press it with your finger wet that it may stick the faster and it will bring the here away. A plaster laid to one's will serve ix or ten times/ and that plaster may be kept hard two years.   

¶ For the stopping of the breath. C  
¶ Against leting of the breath called asma caused of cold after that the matter is digested/ dyspersed/ and divided/ make a fume of colophony/ and let the patient receive it at the mouth and hold down his heed/ & he shall void moche phlegm.    

¶ De cornucuma.  
COrnucuma is an herb otherwise called storna and farraria. It groweth on stones and spreadeth and stretcheth It is like garden crosses/ and hath a seed like plantain. It hath virtue to withdraw/ consume/ put out/ & spread humours. ¶ Against strangury and dyssury/ and against the stone in the reins or in the bladder/ and against opilation of the reins of the milt and liver/ drink often the juice of this herb/ for it helpeth moche.   

¶ De Cucurbyta. A gourd. Ca C.xii  
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CVcurbita is a gourd/ and cytrul is an herb of the nature of the gourd. They ben cold and moist and been found most commonly in hot regions The sedes of them ought to be sown in prymtyme/ and they engender an herb that beareth fruit that is good for meet and medicines. The gourd and the cytrulles been gathered or they be perfitly ripe. The Cytrulles may be eaten raw or they be ripe but so may not the gourds/ for they must be sudden in water or fried. The sedes been dyuretykes because they be of a subtile & swift substance/ and be better in medicines than the other parts of the herbs.  

¶ For the liver. A  
¶ Against opilation or stopping of the liver/ reins/ or bladder/ and against apostume of the pis pill away the husks of the sedes cleave and stamp them & seethe them a little in water of barley/ and make it like almond milk/ and when it is strained give it to the patient. And if ye can not take it so make a syrup & give it him. And it is to be known that these sedes have more virtue when they be made so in milk/ than when they be sudden. When they been put in medicine they ought to be cleansed fro the husks/ and when the quantity is written put to the double.   

¶ For fevers. B  
¶ In very sharp agues use this water/ or the syrup made thereof.   

¶ For colerykes C  
¶ The gourd sudden in summer with flesh in pottage profit moche to choleric people.   

¶ For the auge. D  
¶ Gourds also sudden in water only/ or roasted eaten with vertynce/ is meat and medicine for them that have the fervent ague. And if they be sudden in water so that they be as soft as they can be & syrup made therewith with sugar is good for the same And it is good for them that spette/ as it were filth of an impostume.   

¶ For ethykes. E  
¶ It is also good for them that have a spece of the ague called ethyca. If it be taken at the beginning of the fever/ for it digesteth and purgeth the matter/ by the conduits of urine and is somewhat laxative.   

¶ For chafing of the liver. F  
¶ Against chafing of the liver/ scrape the upperest of the gourd/ and stamp the said scraping and wring out the juice & put vinegar thereto and were a cloth therein/ & lay it to the liver. And when the gourd is ripe it ought to be taken in to a shadowed place that the sedes within may dry. And when they be dry wash the sedes in water to take away a gleymynesse that is about them. And than let them be perfitly dried in the son and kept in a dry place that they corrupt not nor rot by overmuch moisture/ and they may be kept three years. And if ye can get none of these sedes/ take the sedes of sweet apples for they have almost one virtue & make equal operation.  
Isaac saith that the gourd is cold and moist in the second degree/ and engendereth phlegmatic humours/ and profiteth to choleric persons/ and noyeth them that be flowmatyke. It moisteth the stomach & quencheth the thirst caused of choleric heat For to give it to colerykes it ought to be sudden with juice of pomegarnettes or oranges/ or of fygues/ or vinegar with oil of almonds or of olives/ and if it be given to flewmatykes/ seethe it with ysope/ sma●ache/ or mints/ for to attempre the coldness. Also seethe it with suet/ and the above said things for to attempre/ and correct if that it may comfort the stomach if it be bake● in paste and the water that cometh out of it in to the pasty be drunken 〈◊〉 draineth the heat of the fever/ & voy●● the col●r and for the same/ it is also 〈◊〉 if it be sudden in water. The juice of the 〈◊〉 meddled with oil of roses appeaseth 〈◊〉 pain of ●heed caused of choleric humour.   

¶ Against hot impostume. G  
¶ Also this juice meddled/ is good against hot aposteme of the ear/ if it be dropped therein warm. It noyneth to them that been disposed to colic passion/ and have the dropsy.    

¶ De Cucumero Coucommers. Ca C.xiii  
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CVcumerus Cowcommers been fruit of an herb to the gourd/ but it beareth not so great fruit These cowcommers as Isaac saith that they been cold and moist in the second degree/ and be hard to digest and abide long in the stomach/ and specially in the senewy part of the stomach and if they find any meet in the stomach/ they let it to dygest by they coldness and suffereth not the stomach to make perfit/ digestion. But yet they be not so noyful to the stomach as pompons and melons. For pompons been often converted in venomous humours. They make better nourishing than the cowgourdes For the nourishing that cometh of cowgourdes is very phlegmatic/ and cometh to flewne frozen and vicious. And of them hippocras saith. Cowgourdes be hard to digest than the melons or pompous they provoke urine greatly and moisteth the womb.   

¶ De Cytullo. Citrons or cytrulles: Ca C.xiiii.  
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CItrons been more colder than cowgourdes/ and their coldness is in the end of the second degree and more/ they engender gross flewnees and noyeth the sinews of the stomach more than the cowgourdes by their hardness/ and cold. The which is proved by long abiding in the stomach and most often do change in to evil humours and venomous. And nevertheless though they noythe stomach yet is their pith when it is digested is turned in to more perfit humours/ and better blood.   

¶ De Celydonia. Celendyne. Ca C.xv.  
CElidonia is a common herb called Celendyne/ some call it bright/ it is hot and dry in the fourth degree/ and there be two manners of it. That is to wite that of Ind that hath a yellow colour/ and is of greater virtue. How be it they been put sometime one for another as Constantyne saith. When it is found in recepts celendyne only/ it is the rote and  depiction of plant not the herb. This rote may be kept three years in great virtue. It hath virtue by his quality and substance to withdraw/ depart/ and divide humours.  

¶ For the teeth. A  
¶ Against pain of the teeth caused of cold. Bruise the rote a little and let the patient hold it between his teeth   

¶ For the heed B  
¶ To purge the heed and the pose/ bete the roots and seethe them in wine/ and let the patient receive the fume/ and make a gargarism/ for it drieth the pose and purgeth the heed.   

¶ For colyke C  
¶ Against colic passion. Bruise this her be and seethe it in wine and lay it thereto/ Or wete a sponge in the said decoction/ or lay thereto many times the powder of the rote.   

¶ For the matryce. a  
¶ For to cleanse the matryce/ and to provoke the flowers that been stopped/ make a fomentation/ or take the broth that it was sudden in at the neither parties   

¶ For canker. D  
¶ For the canker in the mouth or other outward parts/ or by fretting when there is a wound that always spreadeth/ meddle powder of the rote of celendyne/ and powder of roses with vinegar and seethe them till they be as thick as mustard/ & therewith anoint the canker and freting/ for it is good therefore.   

¶ For fistula E  
¶ Against fistula. The powder confyct with capitellium/ and a strong lie made with divers ashes/ so strong that if an egg be put therein when it is cold it will wax somewhat hard/ and with a quill put it in to the fistula.   

¶ For the eyes. F  
¶ Against darkness or dimness of the eyes or reed aposteme in the eyes/ make a colyre of juice of celendyne with fine honey and wine and white pepper. It is an experiment proved by divers Some put in to the ●y●● that which cometh out of the ●●te when it is broken. For the same the iu●● of the leaves and flowers of celendyne with fine honey put in a vessel of brass in 〈◊〉 ashes and kept is good for to clear the sight.  
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¶ De coryandro. Coryandre. Ca C.xvi  
COriandrum is the herb that beareth a seed named coriander/ and is hot and dry in the second degree and is a common herb when coryandre is found in recepts it is meant the sedes. It may be kept two years Coriandre hath virtue to comfort as well for the qualities as for the aromatic and sweet savour.  

¶ For digestion A  
¶ To comfort digestion/ and against pain of the stomach caused of winds. Take this seed with meats and the wine that it is sudden in. The powder of this seed spread upon flesh that is to be eaten causeth it to have a good savour. Isaac saith that coryandre is of divers natures and virtues/ the which is proved because it hath divers bitter savours/ whereby as hippocras saith it hath heat/ and hath also a rauke savour upon eager or sourness and therefore it is said to be cold. And hippocras saith that green coriander is hot/ and hardeneth the womb/ and if it be taken after meat it causeth sleep. Dyascorides saith that it is cold/ and that it divideth/ and wasteth the kernels called the king's evil. The which Galyen reproveth in this manner It is impossible that such kernels should be wasted by things that cooleth/ for they been of gross and hard matters. And therefore he holdeth that coryandre is hot/ for it is very bitter/ & aught to be meddled with vineygre or juice of pomgarnettes/ and so it is good in use of medicine. The juice of coryandre meddled with cerufe/ vinegar/ lethargy and oil of roses is good against hot impostumes and choleric blisters or pimples/ if it be meddled with crumbs of breed/ and meal of lentils. It is good against herysypyle caused of gross humour. But Galen saith that these plasters ought not to be laid on such impostumes at the beginning/ for there behoveth cold things to appease the pain/ and not dissolving and spreading.    

¶ De Cawls. Caule wortes. Ca C.xvii  
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Cawls been cold and dry in the first degree/ they engender melancholic and thick blood that giveth to the body horrible air and smell/ and there be two manners. One is like to betes/ and is called caraby/ and is of the same operation. But the very cawls been yet of two manners/ for there been winter cawls/ and summer cawls. Those that be summer cawls engender blood more parthed and brent like to black colere caused by way of adustyon/ and that is known by sharpness that they have/ and been mondyfycatyves/ and louse the womb. They that ben cawls of winter be not so sharp/ & the juice of these cawls looseth the belly & provoketh urine. The stock of these cawls been dry/ constypatyse and stopping When the juice thereof is drunken it unbindeth the womb but when it is eaten without the juice it bindeth. And therefore by cause the noyance thereof be moderated/ seethe them first in water and cast that water away/ and seethe them again in other water with very fat flesh of moten or pork/ and confyct them with coriander pepper/ and common/ and so let them be eaten The call called carambia is of the same action with other cawls/ but it is harder to digest/ and is ill for the eyen and for the terhe and the parties of the throat and because of the noyenge sharpness it is not good for medicine.   

¶ De Calce. Brent. Chalk or lime. Ca C.xviii  
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CAlx is lime/ when it is unsleked it is hot and dry in the third degree if it be put to suet of oil it healeth the pimples and rotten apostumes and resowdred and joined all incysyons and wounds if it be steeped in water ix. or ten times renewing the water it loseth the biting/ sharpness that it hath.  

¶ For shalding A  
¶ For shalding/ take a pound of unsleked lime/ and put it in a pan & put water thereto/ and change it. ix. times and let it lie at every time a quarter of an hour than meddle it with oil olive/ and beat it together with oil olive to anoyntement/ and lay it upon the scalding with a feather/ and it will heal.    

¶ De cerifolio/ Cheruell. Ca C.xix.  
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CErifolium is chervil. It is hot and dry in the second degree/ and is a convenable herb for the kechin 〈…〉 and hath leaves like percely.  

¶ For the stomach. A  
¶ It is principally good against pain of the stomach in this manner. Take three handful of green chervil/ and a little of pouliot and bear them in a mortar of wood and put thereto a spoonful of honey/ & seethe them together and make a plaster to the stomach.   

¶ For a canker. B  
¶ Of it be stamped and laid to a canker it ●●le that marvelously.   

¶ For the side. C  
¶ Against pain in the side and against colic passion and ylyake.   

¶ For strangury. D  
¶ Against strangury and dyssury chervil drunken with wine helpeth greatly.   

¶ For a fever. E  
¶ Also anoint him that hath a fever with water that chervil is sudden in when the access beginneth/ and it will take away the coldness thereof.   

¶ For swelling of the neck. F  
¶ And also take away the swelling that may come with a fever about the neck or other part. For the swelling of the neck called porotides meddle chervil with vinegar wax and old grease/ and it will take the swelling away lightly.   

¶ Against vomit. G  
¶ Against vomit/ eat chervil with vinegar/ and it will soon take the vomit away and comfort the stomach & unbind the belly.   

¶ For urine. H  
¶ To provoke urine/ let the juice be drunken and the herb be eaten and laid beneath the nauy●l/ and it will provoke urine greatly   

¶ For the liver.  
¶ Also who so eateth it often/ it easeth the stopping of the liver and of the milt/ & if the herb can not be getten take the sedes & let the patient eat or drink it in powder and it easeth moche.    

¶ De Canapis. Hemp Ca C.xx.  
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CAnapis is hemp This herb is in two manners that is to wite the common & the wild whereof we will show the virtue. Wild hemp is hot & dry in the second degree. It is other wise called Agryon canabyn.  

¶ For breasts A  
¶ For pain and swelling of the breasts meddle the herb of hemp with greas/ and lay it plasterwise on the place/ and with out doubt it will cease the ache and swelling. Also this same ripeth apostumes and breaketh them/ specially such as come of cold humours. If it be meddled with nettle sede/ it wasteth cold apostumes.   

¶ For pose or gout B  
¶ Against pose or stitch or gout caused of cold in what part of the body so ever it be take the juice of the rote of hemp and as much of greas or sweat and a little vinegar/ and anoyte the place and it will ceale the pain.    

¶ De cameleonta. Wolf thistle. Ca C.xxi  
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CAmeleonta is an herb called bla●k cameleonte. Some call it chameleon other cocodyllus/ other dyspata/ other anacardion/ the egyptians semerir/ other astradace locer/ other amelita other labrum veneris/ and hath divers names after divers contrees. It groweth about hedges/ and in ditches/ and may be gathered at all times.  

¶ For the liver. A  
¶ It is chiefly good against pain of the liver if the juice be drunken/ but if the patient have the fever take it with water/ and if he have no fever let him take it with wine/ and it will cease the pain.   

¶ Against venom. B  
¶ For venom/ drink the powder with vi ounces of wine and it will put out the venom.   

¶ For dropsy. C  
¶ Against dropsy meddle it with powder of camedreos that is germandre/ and camephiteos that is mederacle of each alike moche and give three drams with wine if it be a man/ if it be a woman two drams/ and to a child one dram for it expulleth the phlegmatic humours not of the body/ and the moistness of dropsy/ and alvenym/ and provoketh urine.  
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¶ De camomylla camomile. Ca C.xxii  
CAmomilla is camomile/ some call it charmiere pertenicon/ other dyacolefac/ other trystycos elyatos/ other aperytos/ after divers countries it is called by some of the names nipeos iero matenus/ alion patres/ olerasa/ superba/ puxetoes/ eliatoes/ vulenta/ sapera/ soli facium obloadia/ obulacia/ amula/ abiana amulusta/ alba bona. It groweth in unlaboured places as in plains/ & sometime in wheet or line.  

¶ To know if a seek person shall die. A  
¶ If ye will know the virtue thereof gather it standing with the flowers the moan being in the sign of Aries/ and seethe it in oil olive/ and anoint the patient & cover him well/ & give him good quantity of warm water to drink/ and if he sweet it is a good sign of health/ and if not it is an ill sign & a token that he shall die. Macer witnesseth it.   

¶ For strangury B  
¶ Against strangury and dyssury and to break the stone/ wine or water that camomile is sudden in oftentimes drunken easeth greatly. It profiteth greatly for stopping of the milt and of the liver if it be drunken in like wise.   

¶ For the stomach. C  
¶ For the pain and swelling of the stomach/ and against ache of the womb caused of cold humours or winds/ wine the camomile is sudden in easeth the pain.   

¶ For the flowers. D  
¶ To provoke flowers in women bathe them in water that camomile is sudden in.   

¶ For childing. E  
¶ To keep that a woman travail not a fore her time let her drink wine that camomile is sudden in.   

¶ For fever. F  
¶ Against fever quotidian onoynt the patient with oil of camomile/ and it will chafe him and cease the fever.   

¶ For scrufe & kernels in the face. G  
¶ To take away scrufe & kernels that come in the face/ seethe green camomile with honey and anoint the face therewith.   

¶ For biting of venomous beasts. H  
¶ For biting of venomous beasts a dram of camomile drunken with two cyates of wine keepeth the body that no venom can come therein   

¶ For the milt. I  
¶ Against sicknesses of the milt as Plinius saith. Take the space of xl days every day in the morning a dram of camomile in powder with wine & it will ease and hole the milt.   

¶ For the brows. K  
¶ Against swelling of the brows camomyl chawed & laid to them helpeth moche ¶ Against ache of the heed caused of cold anoint the forehead with oil of camomile and the pain will cease anon.   

¶ For scales. L  
¶ Against scales of the heed that the greeks call exantimates/ bruise green camomile in vinegar/ and with the same vinegar wash the heed often & it will heal it with out any other medycyn. Also camomyl sudden & brayed & laid upon sores spreadeth the humours if they be not to much gathered & therefore it is good at the beginning. And know ye that when camomile is found in recepts is the flowers/ & if ye have none green take the dry.   

¶ For the flux. M  
¶ Against flux of the womb if there be no fever take camomile/ roses/ fig leaves/ poligonia that is swine's grass of each a hand full & seethe them in rain water or in renning water & let the patient receive the fume thereof at the fundament & wash his feet & thighs with the water & it will restrain the flux & with draw the pain of the legs & swelling    

¶ Cicer. Achery Ca C.xxiii.  
CIcer is the herb that beareth a seed that called chyches. The seed is to be noted but not the other part of the herb. Chiches nourisheth greatly & moisteth the womb/ provoketh urine purgeth the flowers in women/ but nevertheless they breed moche wind/ & that causeth swelling/ and it increaseth the seed of generation/ & causeth to abound and stir to lecheri. There been two manners of chyches one manner is green and hath not their full growth. And there been chyches that have their full growth. And they have comparison as dry beans and green. For the green chyches been like in virtue and operation to green beans and the dry to the dry/ but not in al. The dry chyches been of two manners/ that is to wite white and black. The white been hot in the first degree/ and moist in the mids of the same. And howbeit that their feeding is more than the beans/ yet it is not so good/ for they be hard to digest and breed winds in such manner that they swell & puff the flesh of the body & make an operation as levayn doth when it is cast on the ground or when it is in paste. And therefore they make the flesh of them fair that use them for the flesh stretch the skin and maketh it smooth & clear. The help that they make to the deed of generation is for two causes one is for they give great quantity of nourys●hynge and so cause the matter to abound. The other is for the ventolytees and inflations that they cause. Of them saith hippocras. There is in chyches two divers and contrary virtues. For when they be sudden in water they have a sweetness in taste/ and a manner of faitnesse. By that sweetness they do cleanse/ nourish/ and increase milk in the breasts/ & is good for them that have ycteryce and dropsy/ and spread and divide the impostumes of the genytoryes/ and of the errs behind or under. For the part that they have salt savour they unbind and spread gross humours & the flowers in women/ and is good for them that have the jaundice and dropsy & for itch of the heed/ and of all the body if one be washed in water that they be sudden in  

¶ for tetters A  
¶ This is good also for to destroy tettres and ringworms/ and cleanseth the skin Galyen saith that they been operatyves & provoke course of restrained flowers and helpeth the child to come sooner out of the moders womb and putteth our worms of the belly called cucurbytias that be like barley corns. It is good also against opilation or stopping of the liver and of the gall and breaketh the stones in the reins & in the bladder. And is very noyful to sores and flaynges that be in the reins and bladder. The black chyches been hotter and not so dry as the white/ and therefore is their bitterness known that pashed their sweetness/ and they been better to the sickness above said/ and specially if they be sudden with rape roots and drink the broth that they be sudden in/ but the white be better for to breed milk in the breasts/ & to increase the seed of generation & to provoke urine because of the sweetness.    

¶ De Castaneis. chestnuttes. Ca c.xxiiii.  
CAstanee been Chestnuttes/ they be hot in the first degree and dry in the second. That they be hot is showed by their good odour. And that they be dry is showed by their rank heat sharp with eygtenesse. But how be it they been good to digest as to the regard of oak rotnes/ and not with standing that they be  depiction of plant styptykes yet be they but little noysym to them that have not the cough. For they be but little diuretic/ and if they be eaten often they make inflation and pain in the heed/ and engender a close fume in the stomach/ and to the end that these anoyaunces that they make may be put away and that they may be styptykes they must be roasted that their substance may be ratefyed/ and if they be steeped in water they attempre the dryth of the breast/ and the membres within/ & divided the humours that letteth the urine by the souplenesse & moistness of the water that they be steeped in/ and more over they engender in the body good and attemperate humours/ but it is good that choleric persons eat them with sugar/ and the flewmatykes with honey/ they have also convenable virtues and proprieties for medicines/ for the put out if dispositions of the stomach that is called abomination that is when one may not feel the taste of any meet and the stint vomit/ and comfort the bowels called jeiunium.  

¶ For biting of a wood dog. A  
¶ If they be stamped with a little salt & confyct with honey they help the biting of a mad dog. Also if they be steeped in sudden wine or unsoden & make a round figure and put it in the natural conduit of a woman it stynceth the blood that issueth   

¶ For the breasts. B  
¶ Also if a plaster be made of them with barley meal and vinegar or wine/ and laid to the paps it wasteth the swelling   

¶ For to have here C  
¶ Also brent chestnuts with husks and all made to powder and confyct with wine and laid plasterwise to the heed will make the here grow/ and keep them fro falling/ and heal the sickness alopyce that causeth them to fall.    

¶ De Cotula. Ca C.xxxv.  
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COtula fetida is an herb moche like to camomile/ but it hath an ill and stinking odour/ and camomile hath a good smell. This herb is hotter and drier than camomile/ and there be two manners of it/ the great and the small and have like virtue. They be best against strangury and dyssury and to break the stone in the bladder. The drink that the flowers be sudden in is good for the said maladies.  

¶ For flowers. A  
¶ For to cause the flowers that be stopped to run/ and to cleanse the superflue moistures and to make them dry wash the place often with the liquor that this herb was sudden in/ or seethe it in oil and make a suppository of cotton and lay to the place.    

¶ De Cotilidion. Ca C.xxxvi.  
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COtilidion is an herb/ otherwise called faler and is called timbalaria/ and umbelicus veneris. It hath round leaves & thick/ and groweth on coverings of old buildings. It hath virtue cold and moist in the third degree  

¶ For botches. A  
¶ Against botches meddle this herb with sheeps dung without salt and lay it plaster wise thereto and ye shall see good effect.   

¶ For podagre. B  
¶ Against ache of the feet called podagre seethe this herb with oil & a little white wax/ and make an ointment. It must be gathered in vex and in summer.    

¶ De catapucia. Spourge. Ca C.xxxvii.  
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CAtapucia is spourge/ it is hot & dry in the third degree/ & moist in the first It is the fruit or seed of a tree that is called catapucia/ and when catapucia is found in recepts/ it is meant the fruit and not the herb/ and the bark or husk must be taken away and the that is within must be taken in requisite quantity. It may be kept a year in great virtue It is to be chosen when it is green/ & not full of holes within/ & that it be not black but have a white colour. It hath virtue to purge flewmes principally & secondly the melancolic/ and choleric humours. It hath might to purge above because it causeth wind that reysteth the humours upward. It is given to hole folk to preserve their health/ and to seek folk to put away their diseases.  

¶ For fever cotidyan. A  
¶ Against fever quotidian caused of salt phlegm & against scabs/ let great quality of the sedes be stamped and wrapped in coolewort leaves/ and laid under the hot emers a good while/ than let them be well wrong or pressed/ and keep the oil that cometh thereof/ and when need is give some to the patient in his mean. And by this means many may be detained For the same make clarey in this wise Stamped the grains of catapuce very small and seethe them with honey/ and with that honey make clary. And it is to wite that a pound of this seed is sufficient for twenty pound of wine/ & so may be made of half a dram of this seed a little clary. This seed may also be sudden in broth of flesh/ of fish/ of eggs and of other meats/ and if it be thus taken it is as good for them that be hole as for them that be seek. Against cotidyan of salt phlegm wash the sedes of arache/ and of raise in seething water with the third part of an ounce of cathapuce/ & than give them with a syrup call siropus acetosus.   

¶ For phlegm. B  
Against quotidian of phlegm congyled or hard after that ye have used incysyne medycyns of phlegm/ seethe two or three drams of castoreum in wine/ and put thereto the third part of this seed piked out of the cod or husk and then strain it and give it with oxymel.   

¶ For ylyake passion. C  
¶ Against ylyake passion/ that is pain of the belly about the navel/ seethe the rote of fennel and cassia line in water/ & put in to the said water the third part of an ounce of catapucya/ and so given in clystre but first make it mollyfycatyfe.   

¶ For gout. D  
¶ Against gout aretyk and palsy/ take a single rose of the confection called benedicta in latin/ & put it in wine that hermodates hath be sudden in with the third part of an ounce of catapuce.   

¶ To preserve health. E  
¶ For to preserve health take the fruit of green catapuce/ and pick it clean fro the husk and stamp it and meddle it with the white of an egg/ and than put it in to broth or pottage/ & so it purgeth the violence of heaviness/ or else cleanse it as it is said and stamped and put in wine and meddled with esula & put thereto cinnamon or other spices of good savour/ & give it with wine.   

¶ For vomit. F  
¶ To provoke vomit of cold causes in the upperest mouth of the stomach as well to them that be hole as to them that been seek bray the sedes thereof in a mortar and meddle them with an herb called wild gourd because it is made of the juice of gourds that is called succydys'/ some call it oleumsuccidium/ that is to say of the said oil/ and lay the said oil on the uppermost mouth of the stomach. And the said oil that is made of cathapuce may be kept the space of a hole year or there about in great virtue and strength without corruption and is as good to the years end as at the beginning. But who so used this herb cathapuce often it breedeth moche wind & therefore when it is taken in medicines it ought to be meddled with other things that wasteth & putteth away part of the strength thereof.    

¶ De culcasia Ca C.xxviii.  
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CVlcasia is an herb that groweth most in Egypte It hath a sharp savour somewhat tart whereby appeareth that it is hot and dry/ and when it is sudden in water it loseth all the sharpness and vyscosite that was in it and becometh gluey/ and therefore it is of gross & hard feeding. How be it by the said rauke savour it comforteth the stomach and fasteneth the womb/ but if it be eaten moderately it breedeth good feeding. It is good against flux of the belly called dyssyntere/ by the vyscosyte & rauke savour that it hath.   

¶ De canna. A reed. Ca C.xxix.  
CAnna is a reed/ and is a common thing. It hath temperate virtue between hot & cold/ & therefore it is in no degree It is good against all fever. ¶ For to increase here break the rote thereof & seethe it in lee & wash the heed therewith/ & it will make the here to grow & increase it ¶ To draw a thorn & arrow/ or a spear out of the belly/ lay the rote thereon/ and it will come out without pain   

¶ De canna mellis. A sugar reed Ca C.xxx.  
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CAnna mellis is the plant that beareth the sugar. It shall be spoken thereof in chapter of sugar hereafter. This plant is like to a reed/ and is hot in the mids of the first degree and moist in the end of the same/ and is good for the body of mankind for the great sweetness that is in it. And also it provoketh urine and cleanseth the reins and the bladder. It softeneth & unbindeth the womb & appeaseth the sharpness of it & loseth the thick humours that is therein/ but yet it cause inflation thereof & specially if it be taken after meet/ & if it be eaten roasted it is more profitable against sharpness of the breast & of the lounges. If it be eaten in great quantity/ & warm water with salt drunk after it provoketh vomit strongly and therefore it is profitable to heal fevers caused of cold humours & rotten if they be taken in manner aforesaid.   

¶ Calendula. Marry gowles/ or ruddes. Ca Cxxxi.   depiction of plant 
CAlendula is an herb called ruddes It is very common. It is called incuba/ solsequium sponsa solis/ Eulitropium/ solmaria And groweth most in gardyns & humours places. maidens make garland of it when they go to feestes and brydeales because it hath fair yellow flowers and ruddy.  
And is called calendula because it beareth flowers all the kalends of every month of the year.  

¶ For the flowers. A  
¶ To provoke flowers in women that be staunched The juice of this herb drunken or eaten with a rereegge and meal made in frytours putteth them forth marvelously/ and comforteth the stomach.   

¶ For the ache. B  
¶ For the pain of the teeth put the juice in the nostrils/ & it will cease the ache.    

¶ De ceterach. Ca C.xxxii.  
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CEterach is an herb so named. It groweth against old walls/ & upon stones and upon old edifices of stones. Ceterach is moist and cold in the first degree/ and therefore it is put in cold syrups. It is good against long access/ and against fever tereyan/ and against fever synoche/ that is caused of inflation of blood and is good against other sharp agues/ and for the ague called pargyte that loseth at the most but vii days. ¶ Powdre of Ceterach put upon new wounds cooleth them marvelously.   

¶ De candelaria Ca C.xxxiii.  
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CAndelaria is an herb that is so named because it is like a taper of wax. It groweth in shadowed & humours places. This herb is resolutyfe and of swyt substance and therefore it is principally good against arthritic & cretyke gutes/ and palsy/ & against all cold gutes of any part of the body in this wise Take all the herb as it groweth with the roots/ and beat it with grease of serpents/ of bears and of marmosettes/ and seethe them all together/ and than strain them/ and make an ointment and anoint the patient often therewith.   

¶ De carabe. Amber  
CArabe or cacabre is a gum called amber/ and is yellow thing that beads be made of It hath virtue cold and dry in the first degree/ half a dram of this gum drunken staunceth the blood that runneth fro broken veins in the breast or lungs/ this blood staunchet the blood of the nose or fro what place that it cometh. If it be drunken it profiteth to them that  depiction of plant have over great abundance of hot choleric humours in the stomach.  

¶ For pain of the heart. A  
¶ It is also good for pain of the heart that reboundeth fro the stomach/ for the near space that is between them. ¶ Also it is good for to stop the course of humours that descend fro the heed in to the stomach/ some masters say that it is good for them that have the strangury.    

¶ De Consolida maiori. Comfrey. Cap C.xxxiiii.  
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COnsolida maior/ is the more consoulde. And is other wise called Anagolycon and symphytum. This herb hath a black rote outward/ and white within and hath a strong sent.  

¶ For veins broken in the breast. A  
¶ The rote is sudden & slit with a knife/ & hangeth in the son to dry/ and may be kept four years in goodness and virtue/ & if a vain be broken in the breast or guts it will resowdre or knit it/ and rejoin it marvelously/ so that the powder of it be taken green with wine or water or fry the rote green as a fryture with eggs or meal/ and so eaten.    

¶ Consolida media. Maythen. Ca C.xxxv  
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COnsolida media is the middle consoulde/ some call it consonaloa/ it hath leaves like to borage/ but they be not so sharp the flower is mean between yellow and white. The rote is full of knots in manner of cocks bollocks and cleave together And there be many together. It groweth in laboured & moist places. It hath virtue to rejoin and knit as the more consoulde hath.   

¶ De consolida minori. Dyasyor brusewort. Ca C.xxxvi.  
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COnsolida minor/ the daisy is the less consoulde some call it cytasales and some vine● toxicum. The leaves thereof be like to mint. The colour of the flower draweth somewhat toward reed/ and been like to flowers of styradoes saraby●e It groweth in ditches and in moist and watery places. ¶ For frytures' made of this herb with eggs and eaten is good against venom And is also good to knit all incysyon or cuts and cleanseth all filth from the wound.  

¶ For biting of venomous beasts. A  
¶ It helpeth against biting of venomous beasts/ if it be bruised & laid thereto    

¶ Coronaria. Honysocle. Ca C.xxxvii.  
COronaria is an herb like to another herb called paligonia that is knotwort/ or swynesgrasse that shall be spoken of here after. There been two kinds thereof. The more and the less the more groweth in places nigh to the see upon great hills/ and is rough & white  depiction of plant The virtue of this herb called coronaria maior is to knit wounds in this wise let the powder thereof be laid often upon the wounds.  

¶ For aposteme in the eye. A  
¶ Coronaria the less groweth in steadfast grounds and plains/ and hath a yelowysshe colour moche upon white. This herb groweth the height of a span/ & the more groweth the height of a cubit This less coronary hath virtue to knit to cleanse/ and to comfort.  
¶ Against the aposteme of the eye & web of the same. Put the juice thereof often therein/ or meddle with pured honey/ and strained/ & it wasteth the web marvelously & it was proved thus. One took a whelp and a cock and pricked their eyes with a crooked iron or needle/ so that they seemed that their eyen were out and than he bruised this herb and put it in their eyen and they be came as fair and clear as they were afore whereof he had marvel/ and proved it many times on divers persons. ¶ It is good also to knit and join wounds if the powder thereof be laid of them.   

¶ For the milt: B  
¶ Against the vice and sickness of the milt and liver/ drink the broth that it was sudden in.    

¶ De cennerugione. Ca C.xxxviii.  
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CEnnerugione is an herb much like to Celendyne. For the leaves and flowers been moche like to it. The rote thereof is somewhat black without and white within This herb growed in dark dyches and watery places/ the stalk thereof is of two cubytes It beareth flowers in Apryll & may. It is chiefly good against stopping of the liver/ the mylt/ and reins and against stopping of the urine/ strangury/ dyssury/ and to break the stone/ if the broth that it is sudden in be drunken It is also good against pain of the matryce/ and against the kings evil/ and causeth to have good colour.   

¶ De cerasis. Cherries. Ca C.xxxix.  
CErasa Cherries. The tree that they grow on is commune There been two manners of cherries that differ in virtue & savour. For some been sour and have a bitter smake. Those with that  depiction of plant bitterness been called damacenes/ and the other agryotes. Cherries been good to re●e for choleric and young persons 〈◊〉 they be cold and dry in the second degree. The moeve and cause/ appetite/ and comforts the stomach/ and wasteth the pain caused of heat and moistness. There been other cherries that have a sweet taste/ and of them been many different manners in taste and goodness/ as there be of pears and other fruit. These cherries the sweeter they be in taste the better they be/ and be cold and moist in the first degree. They have virtue to comfort and to breed good blood/ & to quench the dyrthe of the body/ they lose the womb and provoke urine/ and cause good colour/ and been good for the liver.  

¶ For strangury. A  
¶ The cherystones blanched been good against strangury and dyssury/ and to break the stone/ if the powder of them be taken with wine.   

¶ For tetters. B  
¶ The gum of the tree is good to destroy tetters if it be meddled with vinegar and the place rubbed therewith. Probatum est.    

¶ De caprifolio. Woodbine. Ca C.xl  
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CAprifolium sive daprificus that is chervil or goats leaves/ some call it matrisilua/ or orialam. But that is not so/ for it is higher/ and matrisilua hath a reed sede/ and chervil black seed and green leaves and caprifolium wytyishe. This herb groweth in vales and dyches the height of two cubytes/ and hath stiff twigs in manner of stompes as a tree and hath a yellow flower. The seed is green when it is ripe/ and waxed reed/ & when it is full ripe it is black as sedes of pyony  

¶ For the web in the eye. A  
¶ The juice thereof is good against obtalyne if it be put in the eyes it healeth the web   

¶ For all wounds. B  
¶ To heal all sores or wounds/ lay the leaves of this herb thereon hole at morrow and even/ and it healeth without any other ointment. It hath been often proved.    
¶ Thus endeth the chapters of herbs beginning with. C.   

¶ Here begynned the chapters beginning with. D.  

¶ De dyagredium. Ca C.xli   depiction of plant 
DYagredium is hot and dry in the fourth degree. It is the juice of a tree that groweth beyond the see and is a spece or kind of tytimaluna It is made thus in the canyculer days. The top of this herb is broken/ and thereout cometh milk the which is gathered and put in small vessels/ and set in the son to dry/ & when it is dry it is called dyagredium. Some say that it is made by decoction. It is countrefayt sometime by meddling of an other kind of tytimall/ whereby it is of more mighty and excessyfe operation/ and that which is not countrefayt and is of more safe and light operation. Sometime it is countrefayt in making by meddling of the powder of colofoni. And sometime among powder of dyagredium is sold pieces of colofony in stead of dyagredium.  
Dyagredium ought to be chosen that is white or black/ or somewhat black in colour/ having a clear or bright substance/ and brittle/ & though the Colofony be brittle/ it is not so brittle as dyagredium Good dyagredium aught to have a bitter savour not to horrible & abominable for than it is contrefayt/ by putting to milk of an other spece or kind of tytymall/ and that that hath no savour is countrefayt meddled with colofoni/ that which hath one part bright and the other dim is to be refused as nought/ & it is good that becometh white as milk as soon as it is meddled with spattyll. That is to be chosen that is in round wreaths or in small loves and hard. For that that is in powder may be countrefayt lightly with powder of colofony/ and it lasteth not so long in powder as in wreaths. It may be kept ten or twenty years. It is put in compost medicyns to lose to sharp and to force in small quantity well and convenably/ because it is not of to great violent savour/ or taste/ how be it it is not given alone but the violence thereof is suaged as shall be said after. ¶ For to sharpen medicines/ take two or three drams of Squamony or dyagredium all is one/ safe as masters saith when squamony is preparate it is called dyagredium/ and afore it is squamony. Take two or three drams and put it to powder/ but not so fine and small as other spices ought to be. For if it were powdered so small it would cleave to the guts/ by the vyscosyte thereof and may be cause of flix of the womb Than put these two or three drams so powdered so that there be put thereto as much powder of mastic/ and put it in to the electuary that thou wilt sharpen and put it while the electuary is hot by little and little. For if it were put all at ones the one would cleave to the other/ and would not be well meddled with the electuari Than put it in hot oil. For by heat thereof the violence will abate and waste. And yet it may not be given sharped with dyagredium to xu or twenty days. Or be it made thus. Take two or three drams of squamony/ and step it a night in water that barley was sudden in and with the said water let the medicine be sharped and fortified without straining/ if the patient be strong/ if he be weyke strain it and in this manner may be put more squamony than otherwise/ & this electuary ought to be give ix or ten days. But because the medicyns behoveth to be sharped & strengthened for day to day do in this wise Put two or three drams of squamony in powder but not to small for the cause afore said/ and meddle mastic with the said powder and than prepare thy medicine. Another manner to sharpen thy medycyn and to give it the same day. Take squamony unpowdred and close it past or in a pomme garnet and let it be well baken that the malyod may waste/ and than take it out and powder it and put mastic thereto and so sharpen the medycyn. For mastic is most proper to meddle therewith for to abate the violence/ and bedellium is most next/ and than gomme arabic. And it is to wite that I have said here afore that it behoveth to take two or three drams of diagredium or squamony/ for after divers regions and divers times or wether/ it must be taken more or less/ for one dram doth more in a hot region than two in a cold region & one in hot wether than two in cold wether.  

¶ To purge phlegm. A  
¶ Diagredium purgeth choleric humours phlegm/ and humour melancolyke. ¶ The medicine that squamony or dyagredium is in ought not to be given with cold water/ for by coldness of the water it would cleave to the sides of the stomach/ and of it may be made breed or meat laxative.   

¶ To make payment laxative .. A  
¶ If thou will make clarey or pyment laxative with the other spices that gooth to the said receipt in clarey of dyagredium/ put powder of mastic thereto and put it in the pan and seethe it/ and it will be laxative breed. And how be it that dyagredium squamonate purgeth principally choleric humours howbeit/ it is as it is put in divers compositions. For when it is put in a medicine called oxemell laxative or that is called cold electuary/ or in that called tryfera sarasenica it purgeth choleric humours. But if it be put in a medicine called blanca/ or in benedycta it purgeth phlegm. And if it be put in that called Theodoricon anacardium/ or dyasene/ it purgeth melancholy. And the virtue thereof lasteth most in electuari conficte with honey For it dureth two years/ which it doth not if it be confycte with sugar. If squamony be well meddled with oil of vyolettes it may be used the same day without danger.    

¶ De Dragaganto Ca C.xlii  
DRagagantum is tragacanth Of the which is made the electuary that is called dragagant. It is cold in the second degree and moist in the first. It is the gum of a tre growing beyond the see. Out the which tree woseth  depiction of plant a moisture that by the heat of the son is thycked/ and dried and turned to a gommy substance. There been iii manners of it. For there is white/ and it is best if it be clear. There is also that is browned/ and some yelowisshe but they be not so good as the white. It is to be chosen that is not dim/ but clear and none earth meddled therewith/ white tragacanth aught to be put in cold medicines/ and the brown/ or yellow in hot. It may be kept xl years. By the coldness thereof it hath virtue to kole and to cleanse/ and by the gluey gommosyte to knit and sowdre.  

¶ For dryness in the breast A  
¶ Against dryth in the breast/ give the patient broth that tragacanth/ gum arabyke/ and barley hath be sudden in.   

¶ For the cough B  
¶ Against hot and dire cough/ give the the patient liquorice with dragagant strained Than put thereto powder of dragagant and make pills/ and let him hold them under his tongue till they be melted and than swallow them. The electuary also confycte of two parts of dragagant with simple syrup/ and the third part of liquorice is good for the same cough.   

¶ For thirst C  
¶ Against thirst/ give ptysan that dragagant is dissolved in a night. Or make syrup with water that barley and dragagant is sudden in/ and it is good given convenably in fever agewes. Or if dragagant only be holden under the tongue.   

¶ For sores in the mouth D  
¶ Against clyftes and sores in the mouth stepe tragacanth in rose water/ and wring it through a cloth and with the gluey substance that cometh out confyct the powder of amidum & with a feather wet therein anoint the soores often therewith/ and it will heal anon.   

¶ To cleanse the face. E  
¶ To take away blackness of the face & to make it white women put tragacanth a night in rose water/ and in the morning put thereto borax and camfre in small quantity and anoint their faces.   

¶ For hot apostumes. F  
¶ Against hot apostumes wring the juice of an herb called vermycularis/ and put tragacanth a night therein/ and wete clothes therein/ and lay to the aposteme at the beginning the same is good against gout arthritic caused of hot matters And is like wise good against brenninge if it be laid to the second day and not the first. For the first day ought to be laid to burnings things that been actually hot to put out the heat of the fire and lay soap to the first day.   

¶ For flix of blood. G  
¶ Against blood flix of the womb/ step dragagant in rain water/ and put thereto powder of the same and give it to the patient to drink. Or with the same water warm minister a clystre if the cause of the flix be in the neither guts/ and if it be in the upper guts give juice of plantain that dragagant hath soaked in a night/ and when tragacanth ought to be put in medicine it must first be beaten to powder by itself/ for it is hard to beat/ and in likewise other medicines that been put in electuary of tragacanth.    

¶ De Dauco. Dawke. Ca C.xliii.  
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DAucus Dawke is hot and dry in the third degree/ it is a common herb/ and hath a large flower & in the middle thereof a little red prick It groweth in dry places against dyches and pits/ and hath two sorts one is called daucus creticus because it groweth in Crete. The other is called daucus asininus/ because asses and other beasts ette it. Daucus creticus is best but because it is not much found here/ the other is used in stead of it. The most virtue is in the flower and the herb/ for the rote is nought/ it aught to be gathered when it beareth flowers. The rote must be cast away/ and the herb hanged in a shadowed place to dry. It keepeth good one year. It hath virtue to spread/ to waste and to dymysshe humours by the qualities/ & hath virtue diuretic by the subtlety of the substance.  

¶ For the breathe. A  
¶ Against letting of the breathe caused of cold humours/ and cold cough take drink that this herb & dry figs is so den in Against poose or cold rheum bind powder of this herb to the heed in a bag.   

¶ For the stomach B  
¶ Against pain of the stomach caused of wind. ¶ Against stopping of urine as strangury and dyssury/ and against ache of the womb. give the drink that it is sudden in. And also seethe it in wine and oil and lay it to the painful places/ and for the same take the drink that the sedes of daucus and saxifrage is sudden in:   

¶ For the liver. C  
¶ Against stopping of the liver and milt caused of cold/ and against dropsy/ make syrup with the juice of fennel/ and the decoction of this herb/ for the same put this herb in wine and oil the space of ten days and than seethe it with the oil only and wring the herb and strain it with oil and put wax thereto and make a plaster or cyroyne. It is also good for hard apostumes.    

¶ De Draganto. Coperose's Ca C.xliiii.  
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DRagantum id est vitriolum That is coperose or vytryole It is hot and dry in the fourth degree It is a vain of the earth and is in four manners One is called indyke because it groweth in Ind/ and in none other region and is white. The other arabic because it groweth in araby/ & is yellow The other Cipryke that groweth in the isle of Cypress/ and is green. The other is an earth that groweth in france/ and is called atramentum. The green is best in use of medicine/ when it must be occupied it must be broken small/ and the green vain that is found therein aught to be used It may be kept ten years/ and hath virtue to consume and fret.  

¶ For the fistula. A  
¶ Against fistula take of the powder thereof with two parts of bean meal/ & confyct them with capytellum or with french soap/ and shape a tent thereof and put it in the hole of the fistula. It will cleanse it in such manner that if there be any bones corrupt or broken they may be taken out.   

¶ For polypody of the nose. B  
¶ Against the polypody of the nose/ make a suposytory or tent of a plaster called apostolycon & put powder of coporose thereon and put it in the nose. Or make that tent of cotton and wet it in salt water/ & lay of the said powder thereon and put it in the nose. The said powder is also good to frete the proud flesh of superflue blood of the nose. first burn it and put in powder of old written parchment brent and powder of mastic/ and than make a tent with juice of sanguinari or bursa pastoris with part of a stone called emachitas/ & put it in the nose.   

¶ For the flowers. C  
¶ Against flux of flowers above measure in women put all these things below in like manner safe in stead of sanguinari take juice of plantain that the stone emachiras is also rubbed in with the said things been also made suppository for hemorrhoids for it stauncheth/ breaketh/ drieth & closeth the swellings.   

¶ For hemorrhoids. D  
¶ And for the emorroides confect these powdres with juice of tapsus barbatus. This seemeth against reason that it should staunch blood/ for it fretteth and wasted which is a thing contrary as to staunch, we say that the virtue to staunch cometh by artyfyce and craft/ because it is brent/ for by brenning the hot substance thereof is quenched/ and so remained cold and dry/ and by the dryness it stauncheth. And it ought to be brent till it be as powder in this wise. It is put in a new pot of earth without any liquor upon hot ●rēnynge coals/ & let it stand till it be black when it is meddled with other things it becometh black.    

¶ De Diptano/ Dytany. Ca C.xlv.  
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DIptanus is dytany. It is hot and dry in the second degree. It is an herb the rote whereof is named dyptany. Some call this herb garden gynger. It groweth high and hath leaves much like to strawberries. It groweth in stony places both hot and cold. If the rote be dried as it is gathered it may be kept two years in virtue Dyptan that is hard & stiff in substance and not full of holes is to be chosen/ if it powder not when it is broken. Dyptan hath strength to put out and waste venom  

¶ For biting of venomous beasts. A  
¶ Against biting of venomous beasts and all other venom/ stamp this herb with wine & if the powder thereof be laid upon the sore with juice of mint is very good And of the powder of dyptan & some other things meddled with an opyate as with metridatum may be made a confection having the virtue of treacle. Therefore take the powder of dyptan of gencyan/ of cost/ of arystologie & put thereto powder of very good coperose & make it a colour like treacle & meddle them all with metridatum & it will have virtue of treacle but it will last but two years.   

¶ For the breath B  
¶ Against pain and letting of breathe caused of cold. Boil dry figs/ and caysyne in strong wine/ and strain them and in straining put thereto half an ounce of powder of dryptan/ and give it to drink.   

¶ For to deliver a deed child. C  
¶ To deliver a deed child out of the moders womb/ and the web that it is in the woman. Make an inieccyon or pessayre of the juice of this herb and meddle the powder of the rote therewith.   

¶ For the falling evil. D  
¶ Against the falling evil. Take the powder of dyptan/ and of castoreum confyct with juice of rue and strain it/ & put of the same liquor in to the pacyentes' nose and anoint him therewith warmed.    

¶ De deronicis. Ca C.xlvi.  
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Deronicis been little roots of an herb so named/ and been hot and dry in the third degree. These roots been white & small full of knots as the roots of polipodion. They be good against pains caused of winds and chiefly of the matryce & biting of venomous beasts. Therefore they be meddled ●ith these medicines/ and great confections ordained against venom and in the like wise is galingale.   

¶ De Dactilis. Dates: Ca C.xlvii  
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DActilis be dates/ they be hot and moist in the second degree. They engender gross or course blood/ & be hard of digestion/ but they be better of digestion than dry figs/ and provoketh better urine. But who so used than moche falleth in opilation of the milt and liver with hardness and swelling. They be noyous to the gums and teeth/ and be of divers actions after diversity of regions where they grow. For some grow in hot regions/ some in cold/ & some in mean. They that grow in hot regions been sweet and gleymy/ & giveth but little nourishing and be soon digested & looseth the womb; ¶ But they that grow in cold regions abide in their raukenesse/ and rawness/ because they be less nourishing of all the other/ and been hard to digest. How be it they conforth the stomach more than any of the other. They that grow in mean regions been not so hot/ but they may be kept long if they be not gathered or they be ripe. They have superflue liquor by the which they fill the body and cause gross humours to abound which often be cause of long agues and access because they be ill to spread and divide.   
¶ Thus endeth the chapters beginning with. D.   

¶ And beginneth the chapters beginning with. E.  

¶ De endivia. endive. Ca C.xlviii.  
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Endivia is endive. It is cold & dry in the first degree It is other wise called scary owl. The sedes & the leaves been good in medicines/ and the roots have no virtue/ the green leaves have virtue & not the brye. The leaves have a little bitterness because they be dyuretykes/ and have pontycyte or rankness whereby they ●ē confortatyves/ and by their coldness they have virtue to withdraw and to cool/ & all these things conjoint together be good against opilation of the liver and of the milt caused of heat.  

¶ For the jaundice. A  
¶ Against all manner of jaundice & chafing of the liver & hot apostumes. The leaves eaten tawe or sudden in water helpeth moche/ & for the same the juice meddled with trifera sarasenica is good/ but it behoveth that the matter of the sickness be first dygr●ted   

¶ For unsavoury mouths. B  
¶ For them that savour not their meats make syrup of the juice of endive with sugar/ & if the juice bethycke or troubled c●aryfye it/ & so may all other iuces be/ in this wise. seethe the juice of endive a little A●d let it stand/ & that that is thick will go to the bottom/ than take the thin lycous/ & strain it often through a cloth but wring it not & with the juice clear as water make syrup with sugar/ if ye will make it th'inner put the white or gleyre of an egg thereto. This syrup is good against the iaundies. If ye will make a laxative syrup when it is almost sudden put thereto powder of rhubarb well beaten & strain it if ye will not have it bit/ but if it be strained it is not of so good virtue as it is unstreined This syrup laxatyse is to be given in fevers of humours choleric/ the fourth or fifth day/ but let the matter be first digested. And for the same the juice of endive given with rhubarb and warm water.   

¶ For fevers. D  
¶ Against fevers caused of hot apostumes/ the said syrup and juice is good as it is said with juice of eupatory or wild sawge And for the same may be taken trifera saricenica.   

¶ For the liver. E  
¶ Against chafing of the liver/ & hot aposteme/ the said herb is good laid thereto/ and if ye can get no leaves of this herb/ bruise the sedes thereof in water and use the said broth.    

¶ De Epithimium Ca C.xlix.  
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EPithimium is an herb hot and dry in the third degree. It is an herb that groweth in places that be hot or warm. This herb is sometime found about an herb called thimus and his flower/ and therefore it is called epithimie because it groweth about this herb thimus. The flower is put in medicine/ & not the herb. It hath virtue principally to purge melancolic humours/ and secondly phlegm/ and is not put by itself but it is convenably put in medicines that purgeth melancolic humours. Sometime an herb called cuscuta or dodyr is taken for it It is good for fever quartain in this manner: seethe a dram thereof in water till there be but a little left/ and in the same broth put two drams of azure or stone armenyke and give to the patient. But let the matter or the sickness be first digested/ and it is good against emorroides caused of melancolic blood.  

¶ For cardyake passion. A  
¶ Against cardyake passion and epilence chop epithyme/ and lay on the milt and it will soften it. And if it be sudden in wine and oil and laid to the reins & bladder it wasteth the letting of urine.    

¶ De Enula campana. Elf dock: Scabwoort or horshele Ca C.l.  
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ENula is an herb called can. It is hot in the end of the third degree/ and moist in the first/ & there be ii manners of it One is called ortulana & groweth in gardyns The other is enula campana and groweth in the fields/ and is the best/ and specially the rote. The rote ought to be gathered in the beginning of summer and dried in the son because the it corrupt ne rot because of the moistness/ & it may be kept two years. It hath virtue to sowple to soften and to cleanse/ & therefore it is good for sinews shrunken with cold.  

¶ For pain of the stomach. A  
¶ Against pain of the stomach caused of cold or wind/ drink the wine that the rote thereof is sudden in/ or take powder of the said rote. B  
¶ Against pain of the breast and the mure membres thereof called the spiritual members. If the pain be caused of cold or of ventosytees. Take the liquor that it is sudden in for it helpeth moche/ and therefore this verse was made Enula campana reddit precordia sana. That is to say enula of the field yieldeth the entrails health.   

¶ Against cold cough. C  
¶ Against cold cough the said liquor is good. The powder of this rote/ and of cinnamon is good for them that have no delight of their meat. It looseth the womb and destroyeth the pains of the membres in the breast. This herb sudden with leaves in wine and oil/ and laid on the womb appeaseth the pain of the ylyake and colic passion/ and wasted the letting of urine ¶ Against letting of the breath called asma if it be caused of cold. seethe barley in water with liquorice as a ptysane till it be somewhat thick/ & than seethe the rote of enula in the same water and made in powder and given to the patient.    

¶ De euforbio. Ca C.li  
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EVforbium is hot and dry in the fourth degree It is the gum of a tree that groweth in ynde that in summer time causeth a gommynesse that cleaveth to the tree and hardeneth thereto/ sometime it falleth on the ground and meddled with earth and than it is nought nor that that is small. ¶ Euforbu●m is to be chosen that is thick and brygh● in substance/ and is somewhat brown or yellow but the white is nought. It may be kept xl years. It hath virtue to dissolve/ to spread/ withdraw/ lose/ & waste humours and principally to purge phlegm/ and melancolic humours and purgeth the heed and joints.  

¶ Against gout. A  
¶ Against all manner of gout be it arteryke/ scyatyke/ or podagre/ and against ylyake passion meddle the medicine called benedicta/ with two or three other drams of euforbium/ and of bedelium or mastic/ and give it sufficiently with decoction of fennel/ or fennel alone/ or the rot● thereof.   

¶ Against ylyake passion. B  
¶ Against ylyake passion the same ministered in clyster helpeth greatly/ & against all such sicknesses/ if they be caused of phlegm.   

¶ For the fistula C  
¶ For the fistula/ take euforbium with mastyeke and meddle them well together/ and than seethe them well with french soap and make a tent/ & put it in the fistula and it will consume the evil moisture.   

¶ For the heed D  
¶ Against pain in the heed and phlegmatic epilence. Sharpen and enforce or strength. Gerologodion or the medicine called Blanca/ in like wise as it is said of benedicta afore/ and give it to the patient that he fall not in these maladies/ or if he have them to heal him.   

¶ For lethargy. E  
¶ Against lethargy. Bind the powder of euforbium in a fine cloth and hold it so to the nose that the powder may ascend in to the nose that he be constreind to sneeze or else confyct euforbium in this manner with oil of roses/ and in that oil wet a feather and put it forre in to the nose/ & constrain or provoke sneezing to them that been in appoplexi/ and in access of epylence   

¶ For lethargy and epilence. F  
¶ Against lethargy and epilence make an ointment of euforbium/ of pepper/ and of castoreum with oil of musk or common oil/ or confyct these powder with juice of wild gourds/ and anoint and rub the hinder part of the patient's heed.   

¶ To recover the mind G  
¶ To recover the mind make electuary of two parts of lignum aloes and of cassia ligna/ and the third part of euforbium/ and anacardy/ and confyct it with honey/ and give a dram of it to the patient Or else do thus/ shaw or clip the hinder part of the heed/ and wash it well with warm wine/ & than let it be iacted or boxed/ and rubbed with juice of wild rue that euforbium is/ and the substance with in the anacardes   

¶ For forgetfulness. H  
¶ For them that been forgetful/ and for them that lose their speech in fevers because of the matter in the hinder part of the heed make an ointment of opponac/ lodane/ & euforbium meddle together and rub the same place so shaven therewith.   

¶ For the breathe. I  
¶ Against pain of the breath called asma if it be caused of cold. Take the powder of euforbium with a little mastic/ and a rear egg.   

¶ For the milt. K  
¶ Against pain of the milt/ sharpen the electuary called dyasene with euforbium mixed with mastic/ and make divers dygestyons. The powder of euforbium fretteth and eateth the superflue flesh in what place so ever it be laid to.    

¶ De eupatorio. Wild sawge. Ca C.lii.  
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EVpatorium is an herb otherwise called Saluia agrestis. It is hot in the first degree/ and dry in the second. It hath more virtue green than dry.  

¶ For palsy A  
¶ It is good against the palsy that holeth overall in this wise. Boil castoreum in the juice of wild sawge or of flag & make pylles thereof with sugar/ and lay under the tongue. Also make a gargarism with the decoction of the foresaid things. But first it behoveth to let blood on the two veins under the tongue/ and this same is also good for them that have lost their speech by fevers.   

¶ For dropsy. B  
¶ Against dropsy/ ycteryce/ or jaundys' caused by stopping of the liver or of the milt. seethe a dram of wild sawge in half an ounce of juice of smallage/ and drink the broth thereof.   

¶ For worms in the belly C  
¶ Against worms in the belly the nuts of presses with juice of wild sawge is good if it be drunken.    

¶ De emblicis. Ca C.liii  
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EMblici been fruits that grow beyond the see. They purge the flewmes of melancolic/ and been good against sicknesses coming of the same as fever quartain/ if an ounce or half ounce put in decoction with Tapsebarbe.  

¶ For hairs A  
¶ To keep here fro falling. Tempre powder of them with powder of lignum aloes in oil and anoint the heed. If the here fall because the poors be to open or by to great heat it is good/ for the oil closeth the poors.    

¶ De epatica. Lyverwort. Ca C.liiii.  
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EPatica is cold and dry in the first degree. It groweth in watery places and specially if it be stony/ & the bigger that the leaves be the better it is It is called epatic because it comforteth the liver. It hath virtue to keel/ and is diuretic and aperytyve by the swiftness of the substance thereof/ and therefore it is good against opilation of the milt and liver/ caused of heat or of hot humour/ & it ought to be put in all waters and syropes made against the heat of the liver. For it helpeth greatly.  

¶ For hot apostumes. A  
¶ Against hot apostumes this herb bruised laid thereon putteth the matter out and suffereth not the impostume to grow. The syrup of the water that liverwort is sudden in/ if rhubarb be put thereto in the end of the decoction is good against iaundies    

¶ Dees usto. Brent brass. Ca C.lu  
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ES ustum is brent brass. It is hot and dry in the fourth degree It is called calcecumenon. This brass is made by craft and so much brent that it may be put to powder in this manner. This brass● is taken reed hot as it cometh out of the forge and is put in a new pot of earth/ and is put in to a furnace where as is a great fire continually the space of xv days/ and than is put to powder. By this brenuing their thy parties groweth and the gross or course dymynyssheth. This ●rent brass hath virtue to dissolve/ consume and waste and also to purge humours of melancholy/ and to divide and unbind as apostolycon doth/ and in plaster for the milt it fretteth the proud flesh.  

¶ For fistula. A  
¶ Against fistule the powder thereof confyct with spatarent soap or french soap & made as tents or put in with a feather doth open the entering of the sore.   

¶ Against polipe. B  
¶ Against polype/ make a tent of apostolycon and strew of this powder thereon/ & put in to the nose.   

¶ For ill colour. C  
¶ For them that have ill colour causen of melancolic humours in the milt/ or by cause of raw humours in the stomach of long season made thus Take the powder of brent brass and wash it ix or ten times in water as the azure stone is washed and use it in sufficient quantity with juice of fennel or oxymel and warm water. And it will purge the melancolic humours downward. But it will be with great violence.    

¶ De Electerio. Ca C.lvi  
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ELecterium is the juice of wild cowcomers called asinines. And there is difference between electerides and electerium/ for electerydes' is the sedes of cathapucia/ spurge/ but electerium is the juice of wild cowcomers. It is hot and dry in the fourth degree/ and is made in the canicular days seethe wild cowcomers and stamp them and wring out the juice and set it in the son to dry.  

¶ purgation. A  
¶ Some seethe the juice on the fire with honey till the juice be almost wasted & giveth this honey in manner of electuary it looseth upward and downward. Electerium may be kept ii years in good melancolic humours.   

¶ For gouts. B  
¶ Against gout arthritic/ podagre/ ciragre/ and ylyake passion. Electerium/ and myrrh put in powder of each two drams and be well chafed and handled in oil of roses be given with juice of fennel warmed. How be it against ylyake passion ought first to be given a clystre mollyfycatyfe/ and than one made of mallow water/ oil/ and honey with .v. or vi drams of electerium/ and mastic and warm water put thereto.   

¶ For flowers. C  
¶ To provoke flowers in women/ confyet the powder of electerium with oil of musk or olive and with cotton make a tent.   

¶ To ripe botches D  
¶ To ripe cold apostumes confyet .v. or vi. drams of electerium with barli meal and white of an egg and lay it thereto. It is also good against hoot apostumes/ & there ought no remedy to be given at the beginning of an impostume for to break it. Also electerium with terbyntyne is good   

¶ For worms in the ears E  
¶ Against worms of the ears/ confycte two grains weight of electery with vinegar and put it warm in to the ears.   

¶ For the stomach F  
¶ Against all pains of the stomach caused of cold/ anoint the stomach with electerium and vinegar.   

¶ For pimples G  
¶ Against pimples of the face and other things that dyscolour it/ take seruse and camfer/ and put as much as of them both of electerium/ and confyet them with vinegar in a mortar of lead and beat them with a pestle of lead in manner of an ointment/ and put them in a glass xu days/ & than put it in to the said mortar again & beat it with vinegar if it be hardened and anoint the face/ for it taketh away all infections.    

¶ De eleboro albo. Lyngwort/ or peleter of Spain. Ca C.lvii.  
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ELeborus is hot and dry in the third degree. There be two manners of it/ one is called white hellebore because the rote is white/ and because it purgeth white humours/ as flewmes The other is called black hellebore that is pedelion/ because it purgeth the choleric black humours. When hellebore is found in recepts it is to wite the rote. In old time it was commely used in medicines as we use squamony. For the body of man was stronger than it is now/ and might better endure the violence of hellebore/ for man is weyker at this time of nature/ & therefore the medicine that hellebore is put in aught to be given by great discretion and sleythgt. When hellebore only is founden in recepts it is the white. And it ought not to be given to him that hath a strait breast and is lean/ for it purgeth upward by vomit/ but to him that is fat & strong and disposed to vomit.  

¶ For fevers. A  
¶ Against fever quotidian or daily/ caused of natural phlegm/ or of course/ and gross phlegm congealed as arthritic/ pod agre or cyragre it is good with oxymel this wise. Take the roots of fennel/ and of rapes and pierce them through with and all or bodkyn/ and put therein roots of white hellebore and let them lie xxx or xl days that the virtue of the hellebore may be incorporate and holden in the said roots. And this may be done with other roots/ but beware that ye break them not in taking the earth fro them/ and cover them again with the same earth when they be so dressed/ than pill these roots and put them in vinegar iii. or four days/ and than seethe them in vinegar and honey & make oximell thereof for the gouts afore said.    

¶ De elleboro nigro. Pedelyon/ or lions foot. Ca C.lviii.  
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ANd in likewise may oximell be with the rote of black hellebore in form afore said. The which is good against fever quartain/ and humours of melancholy. But it ought not to be used till the matter be digested. And it is to wite that white hellebore is more violent than the black.  

¶ For gout: A  
¶ Against gout arthritic/ cyragre/ and podagre. seethe this herb in salt water/ and make fomentation or bathe upon the place/ and lay the herb so sudden and stamped thereto.   

¶ For worms in the ears. B  
¶ Against worms in the ears. Confyet a little powder of hellebore with the juice of an herb called quisicaria/ and put it in the ear/ and anon they will come out. The powder of hellebore laid upon deed flesh fretteth deed flesh.   

¶ For scruffe of the heed C  
¶ Against the scruffe of the heed and abundance of lies. seethe the roots of bitter lupinis in vinegar & put thereto powder of hellebore & make a confection thick as mustard and anoint the heed therewith and wash it with warm water.   

¶ Against scabs. D  
¶ Against scabs make powder of white hellebore beaten by itself/ and one or two ounces of lytergy or scum of silver also beaten alone with nut oil/ and confyet the lethargy in vinegar and than boil it in oil and at the last put to it powder of hellebore/ and therewith anoint the patient in the bathe.   

¶ For lethargy E  
¶ Against lethargy or epilemce. constrain the patient to sneeze with powder of hellebore put in his nose. ¶ Dyascorydes saith if a cake be made with meal and water/ and powder of hellebore put therein it will slay all the mice that eat of it.    

¶ De Esula. Ca C.lix.  
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ESula is hot and dry in the iii: degree It is an herb/ the rote of it is good in medicine. It must be gathered in ver/ and may be kept two years in virtue/ but it is better every year new. It hath virtue to purge phlegm/ & therefore it is good for diseases caused of phlegm. Esula is best next squamony of all things that purgeth by their sharpness and may be best used for the taste is not to abominable.  

¶ For fevers and gouts. A  
¶ Against fever cotydyan of natural phlegm/ and against gout arthritic/ cyragre/ palsy/ ylyake passion/ and dropsy/ called leucoflemance. Make a powder that was ordained by one named Petrus as it followeth. Take iii drams of esula/ and a quantity of synamum/ fennel sede/ any sede/ and mastic. This powder is good with warm wine or water or with a rear egg/ or in tin pottage or broth of flesh If the medicine named bennet or benedicta be sharpened or fortified with esula/ it easeth the said dyseasons/ and specially ylyake passion/ so it be ministered in clyster with salt water/ or oil/ and honey/ and helpeth specially against dropsy caused of cold/ or if all the body be swoller do thus. seethe the juice of fennel a little and than let it settyll and take the clearest above and put thereto powder of esula and sugar/ and so use it. And for them that be to dainty make a syrup. And for them that will take no medicine seethe the powder of esula or the bark thereof unpowdred with flesh/ and eat the flesh and sup the brethe and it is good also for the abovesaid diseases/ or make clarey with powdered of esula/ and line/ or honey with other spices Also the medycyns called theodolicum/ anacardium. And that named geralogodium may be confyet and shaped with powder of esula.    

¶ De Eruca. Skyrwyt. Or wild cawls that bered mustard sede. Ca C.lx  
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ERuca is hot and dry in the third degree. There is ii manners the wild and the tame. For use of medicine the sedes be chief and the leaves next It hath virtue to consume and move lechery.  

¶ For lechery. A  
¶ To move lechery against strangury/ and dyss●ty/ and palsy/ it is good if it be sudden with flesh. The powder of the sedes sudden with onions also for the same. The herb sudden in wine and laid on the reins moveth lechery The powder of the sedes with wine and honey confyct in manner of a plaster laid to the reins doth the same.    

¶ De Emachte. Ca C.lxi  
EMachite is a little stone that is found in orient and occident. It is cold and dry of complexion/ and hath virtue to restrain the bloody flux and therefore it is called Emachyte. For emach in ebrew is blood in english/ and chytes is flux. It may be kept long.  

¶ For flux of the nose. A  
¶ Against flux of blood at the nose Rub this stone upon an other stone or marble/ with juice of sanguynary called bursa pastoris.  person sitting behind table covered with stones And that that droppeth fro the said rubbing be mixed with cotton and put in the nose.   

¶ For spitting of blood. B  
¶ Against emoptoike passion that is when any spitteth blood by bruising of the membres of the breast. Rub the said stone upon marble with rose water meddled with dragagantum/ in the said freting/ and confect with powder of gum arabic and make pills/ and lay them under the patient's tongue & swallow them when they be melted. But if he spit blood by vice of the nourishing membres. Rub the stone with juice of plantain & put to powder of consolida maior that is confrey and give it the patient.   

¶ For bloody flux. C  
¶ Against flux of blood of the womb do the same. And it were good to make a clyster and a plaster laid to the reins and beneath the belly made with gleyre of an egg/ oil of roses vinegar/ and powder of the same stone.  
¶ For excessive flux of blood in women rub the said stone with juice of plantain/ & put thereto powder of bistorta. ¶ This stone cleanseth the eyen greatly if it be meddled with honey. It wasteth the pricking and ache of the eye lids and fasteneth the here of them. If it be tempered with woman's milk it helpeth the appostome in the eye and wasteth it. And if it be tempered with white of an egg it is good against hot apostumes.    

¶ De Ebulo. Walworde. Ca C.lxii  
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EBulus is an herb hot and dry. Some call it cameatus. The rote the bark/ and the buds been chiefly good in medicines/ the rote & barks ought to be gathered in ver and dried in the son. It may be kept a year in bounty and hath virtue to consume/ and to waste/ to spread/ to dissolve and to purge phlegm.  

¶ For fever quotidian. A  
¶ Against fever quotidian caused of phlegm natural/ and also against gout arthritic/ podagre or cyragre/ take the juice hereof with powder of esula with sugar or at least the juice of the buds or crops with sugar/ or the powder of the rote with juice of fennel/ and in this wise it is pryncypal good against dropsy called leucoflemaunce   

¶ For swelling. B  
¶ Against ache and swelling of the extreme members/ as the hands and feet & other outward parts/ make fomentation with salt water that the rote and all the herb is sudden in.   

¶ For gout. C  
¶ If a bathe be made with salt water and this herb sudden therein it helpeth against gout arthritic/ dropsy & leucoflewmaunce.    

¶ De edera magna. Yuy. Ca C.lxiii.  
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EDera magna/ is black ivy that the greeks call cissomelle/ the italians edera magna/ other arbores and groweth against trees.  

¶ For the stone. A  
¶ To break the stone in the bladder/ take the sedes of ivy/ viii. or ix times/ & bethe them with warm water and drink them it is marvelous good.   

¶ For heed ache. B  
¶ For the heed ache/ meddle ivy sede with little vinegar/ and oil of roses & anoint the heed/ and it will waste the pain.   

¶ For the milt. C  
¶ For pain of the milt/ the juice of ivy or wine that it is sudden in helpeth greatly also the leaves sudden in wine and the side washed often therewith is good.   

¶ Against pain of the ears D  
/ strain the juice through a cloth & put it in the ears.   

¶ For polype of the nose. E.  
¶ Against polype the juice put in the nose thrills is good. The gum of ivy made in ointment is called dyalthera/ and hath power to chafe and to consume.    

¶ De spatula fetida. yellow flag. Ca C.lxiiii.  
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Exiofion is a herb that some call glais satygall. It is commonly called spatula fetida/ and growed in shadowed places and is like to ivy leaves. It is good against fistula in any part of the body. Take the rote thereof vii ounces of vinegar/ and three of fox grease and meddle them together and make a plaster & bind it on with a cloth morning and evening.  

¶ For a broken heed A  
¶ For a broken heed. Take the powder of crops of this herb and put it in wine/ and lay it on plasterwise/ & it will heal it. And if there be any bone broken it will draw it out/ and put out any filthiness of it and in such manner it is good for any wound in all parts of the body. Also the seed thereof drunken breaketh the stone in the bladder.   

¶ For phlegm. B  
¶ Also juice of the rote drunken in quantity purgeth the phlegmatic humours of the stomach.    

¶ De Elitropio. Chycory. Ca C.lxv.  
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ELitropium is an herb called sponsa solis. And hath many manners after divers countries/ as evidia rostions/ urastropium/ viscene and many other. It groweth in fast grounds and medes/ and is a divine herb of the body of the son/ and hath crooked branches/ and the flower is coloured as the sky and is cold in the second degree This herb is good against venom of biting/ if the juice be put thereto. It is also good for the stopping of the milt cause of cold/ and against opilation of the reins.  

¶ For venom. A  
¶ Against venom the juice made with powder and drunken put out venom lightly.   

¶ For lechery B  
¶ Against brenning of lechery bruise this herb and lay it to the cods and it will quench the heat.    

¶ De eufragia eufrace. Ca C.lxvi.  
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EVfragia is an herb that some call luminelle. It hath five virtue. The first for the redness & dimness of the eyen/ and for these things it must be gathered of him that is diseased & than put to dry/ and the redness and pain will go away.  

¶ For the sight. A  
¶ The second if the rote & leaves be steeped or soaked in wine and the patient drink the wine/ it will clear the sight.   

¶ For the stone. B  
¶ The third it will break the stone if the roots and the juice be meddled with an herb called Gramen if it be drunken.   

¶ For cardyake passion C  
¶ The fourth if eufragye and bugloss be equally meddled in oil olive it helpeth the cardyake passion. ¶ The .v. Take water of eufragye stilled and put thereto the third part of vygne water/ so that there be an ounce of both and a dram of thutic of alexandry well quenched/ and of these together a drop put in to the eyes helpeth the sight.   

¶ Against the falling evil. C  
¶ And if in the said water composed of the said two waters be sudden a dram of castoreum. It would be a marvelous thing against the falling evil and is a specially proprete. ¶ These thing saith Arystotle in the quantity of virtues of things. Master Peter of Spain that was a solempnell clerk saith that if eufragye be meddled with fennel/ rue/ veruayne/ relydony/ bethony/ and capilli veneris/ and all together it helpeth marvelously to preserve and comfort the sight/ and wasteth the redness and pain of the eyen.    
¶ Thus endeth the names of herbs beginning in. E.   

¶ And beginneth the names of herbs that do begin with. F.  

¶ De flamula. Sereworde. Ca C.lxvii.  
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FLammula is an herb so named because it is hot & burneth as flamme It is hot & dry in the fourth degree when it is green/ but when it is dry it is nought  

¶ To pierce the skin without blood. A  
¶ To make a cautere without blood stamp this herb/ and lay it to the part that ye will have it and leave it there a day and a night and ye shall find the skin brent & fret a souder.   

¶ To break aposteme. B  
¶ To break an aposteme full of filth that hath a hard skin over it/ bruise this herb with oil/ and lay it thereto. This oil is meddled therewith to moist it because the herb shall not moist the place to much.   

¶ For fever quartain C  
¶ Against fever quartain and gout arteryke some work inward/ and against ylyake passion do in this manner/ set it in the son xxx or xl days. This must be used in meats or other wise to the quantity of three drams/ and this oil is good outward against gout arthritic/ ylyake passion and stranguri and dissury/ & against the stone if it be ministered with clyster.    

¶ De ferrugine. Ca C.lxviii.  
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FErrugo is the scum of iron/ & the scales/ and been of one virtue This scum of iron is hot and dry in the second degree. the scales of iron is called squama ferri in latin: It is that that fleeth of the iron when it is forged: But the scum of iron called ferrugo is that that abideth and cleaveth in the furnace where iron is heat and forged. It hath virtue to soften and to dry  

¶ For to soften the milt A  
¶ To soften and unbind the milt/ drink the wine that hot iron is quenched in when it is reed.   

¶ For opilation of the milt. B  
¶ Against opilation of the milt of long continuance/ take two drams of very small powder of scum of iron with warm wine & it will provoke urine in great quantity and vomit so much that death followeth. And to delay this strength water that dyamant hath been tempered a night abateth and restrained the vomit. This witnesseth dyascorydes' but this manner of vomit is to perilous.   

¶ For hemorrhoids. C  
¶ Against hemorrhoids confyet very fine powder of scum of iron with juice of tapsebarbe/ and let the patient take cotton & wet it therein and lay it to the sore. It is a good remedy.   

¶ For costiveness. D  
¶ Against tenasmon that is costiveness/ & against bloody flux of the womb heat the scum of iron very hot and drop vinegar thereon/ and let the patient receive the fume or smoke at the fundament Dyascorydes saith that hot brenning iron quenched in water or wine/ the said water or wine been good for long flux of the womb/ and for sores of the bowels/ & aposteme of the longs and remolition of the stomach Galyen saith that it helpeth greatly. The scum stoppeth the excessive flowers in women. But it caused pain of the stomach.   

¶ For to grow here. E  
¶ If ointment of it be made upon the place that the here falleth it causeth them to grow again.    

¶ De fumo terre. Fumyterry. Ca C.lxix.  
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FVmus terre is hot in the first degree/ and dry in the second It it called Fumus terre. Fume or smoke of the earth because it is engendered of a course fumosyte rising from the earth & because it cometh out of the earth in great quantity like smoke. this gross or co●ts fumosyte of the earth/ windeth and wryeth out/ and by working of the air and son it turned into this herb The more it is green the better it is/ and when it is dry it hath no virtue. It purgeth humours of melancholy salt phlegm/ and collar/ and is dyntytyke.  

¶ For scabs. A  
¶ For scabs. Take oil of nuts and powder of seen and put thereto a good quantity of juice of fumyterre and anoint the scabs therewith. And if the juice be drunken with sugar and warm water/ or juice of fennel twice or thrice in the week it purgeth the humours that causeth scabs.   

¶ For dropsy B  
¶ Against dropsy called leucoflemaunce. The juice of this herb meddled with two drams of powder of Esula & drunken with warm water/ or a syrup made of the juice of fennel or the juice of esula sudden with sugar is very good.   

¶ For gout. C  
¶ For gout arthritic. Take two ounces of hermodates with juice of enchanter. And this herb sudden & laid on the feet is good   

¶ For the stomach. D  
¶ For humours of melancholy in the stomach. And for opilation of the milt and liver caused of cold Take this juice with sugar and drink it with warm water/ and it is to weet that some take this juice at even and some in the morning/ & some take it alone without any thing meddled therewith/ and some put some thing thereto But it ought to be taken at night/ & some what put to it that wasteth wind/ as fennel seed or mastic. Fumiterre wasteth & dissolveth windy humours. It conforteh the stomach and caused appetite and unstoppeth the opilation of the liver & milt and provoketh flowers retained in women The juice thereof cleanseth the blood and specially if it be meddled with mirabolani. Diascorides saith that fumiterre healeth the body of all rottenness by the propriety thereof.  
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¶ De Filipendula. Dropwort. Ca C.lxx  
FIlipedula is an herb otherwise called fisalides. It is hot & dry in the third degree. The rote is chiefly good in medicine/ and aught to be gathered in harvest time/ and may be kept x. year in strength. It hath diuretic virtue by the qualities and substance.  

¶ For pain in the bladder A  
¶ Against pain in the bladder/ and let of urine/ for strangury/ dyssury/ and ylyake passion/ drink wine that the powder thereof is sudden/ or electuary of two parts of it and the third of Saxifrage.   

¶ For the stomach & falling evil. B  
¶ Against pain of the stomach caused of cold/ take the powder thereof in meats & the same is good against falling evil.   

¶ For pain of the breath. C  
¶ Against pain of the breath called asma caused of cold/ take the powder thereof with powder of gencyan in meats and drinks And for the same take the powder of filipendula and powdre of orpiment on the coals/ and let the patient take the smoke at the mouth. It is very good.   

¶ For ylyake passion. D  
¶ For ylyake passion make a clyster with salt water that the powder thereof is sudden in with oil and honey.    

¶ De Fraxino. ash tree. Ca C.lxxi.  
FRaxinus is an ash tree. It is cold and dry in the second degree. The bark and the sedes/ and a gluey thing that groweth out of it in manner of a mussheron is good for medicine.  

¶ For flux: A  
¶ Against flux of the womb after that  depiction of plant ye have taken purgation/ make fomentation with rain water that the bark and this gluey thing is sudden in   

¶ For vomit. A  
¶ Against vomit caused of weakness of the virtue retain/ take the powder thereof with rain water/ if it be by sharpness of humours Take the bark of the mussheron of it sudden in vinegar and were a sponge therein and lay it under the stomach.   

¶ For the milt. B  
¶ For pain of hardness of the milt let the patient use the wine or water that the bark of ash is sudden in & without doubt it will heal him.   

¶ For lechery: C  
¶ To stir lecheri the sedes of ash put in electuaries/ and the same sedes pilled put in dyasatirion for the same cause/ or if they be eaten by themself/ it helpeth and comforteth If branches of ash be bruised & laid upon long sores and pimples healeth them/ if a dram and a half of the bark be bruised in wine it purgeth phlegmatic humours. And if it be laid on broken bones it rejoined & knitteth them.    

¶ Feniculus. latin. Hazienis vel Hakasmech Arabice. Fenell. Ca C.lxxii.  
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FEnell is hot and dry in the second degree. It hath diuretic virtue by the swiftness of substance and qualities. The leaves the rinds and the rote is good in medicine/ but when maratrum is found in recepts it is the sedes of fennel. In coleres and medycyns for the eyen/ the juice of the rote rinds is best. The roots be nor put but if the be said expressly. The rinds of the roots been gathered in the beginning of ver and been kept half a year. The sedes be gathered in the beginning of haruestand may be kept three years.  

¶ For the milt. A  
¶ Against stopping of the milt and let of urine and the stone caused of hot humours. Take the water that the rynd●●f fennel roots is sudden in and if the diseases be of cold cause/ seethe the said rinds in wine and drink it. Fenel in all manner is good for the said diseases sudden or raw laid to in manner of a plaster.   

¶ For the stomach. B  
¶ The same water or wine easeth the pain of the stomach caused of cold or winds/ and comforteth digestion/ and likewise doth the powder of the seed.   

¶ For dropsy. C  
¶ Against leucoflewmaunce dropsy take in. drams of hermodates and as much esula sudden in the juice of fennel rotes/ and strain it and use it at even or the stomach be filled/ or fasting in the morning.   

¶ For the web in the eye. D  
¶ Against the web in the eye or itch of it. Set the juice of fennel a fortnight in the son in a vessel of brass/ and than be made in manner of colire/ & for the itch make this certain experyment Take good aloen and confyct it with juice of fennel/ 〈◊〉 use it in the eyen.    

¶ De fenegreco. Fenegreke or setwall. Ca C.lxxiii.  
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FEnegreke is hot and dry/ but it is less dry than hot and hath virtue to ripe and lose.  

¶ To ripe apostumes. A  
¶ To ripe apostumes/ take the meal of fenugreek confyct with white of an egg and lay thereto. For to ripe and break it/ take the meal thereof with terbentyne. the herb also sudden in oil laid thereon ripeth it.   

¶ For the milt. B  
¶ Against hardness of the milt/ lay the herb xu days in oil/ and than seethe it & strain it/ and put wax and meal thereof to the said straining and make an ointment. And the same is good to ripe botches.   

¶ For the breast. C  
¶ For apostumes in the breast/ fill a bag with meal of fenugreek & seethe it in water that bysmachie/ hollyhock was sudden in and lay it often on the place.   

¶ For the stomach. D  
¶ Against aposteme of the stomach/ and of the bowels. seethe meal of fenugreek with water that malowes was sudden in and lay to it. This is not good for apostumes of the breast because it is to hot.  
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¶ De filice. serve Ca C.lxxiiii.  
FIlex is serve. It is a common herb. The greeks call it pyterrigum.  

¶ For stynkyn in the body. A  
¶ Against all rottynnesse or stinking in the body. seethe roots of fern/ and egrymony in wine of each two drams and it will help marvelously.   

¶ For disease of children. B  
¶ For a sickness that children have that is when they be lax/ and that somewhat fall to their fundament/ bruise the roots of serve with grease/ and lay it to plaster wise on a linen cloth/ and he shall be hole in .v. days.   

¶ For the milt. C  
¶ For hardness of the milt/ the drink that the rote of serve is sudden in often taken softened the milt and suageth the pain.   

¶ For sinews. D  
¶ Against ache of the sinews and joints meddled the rote of serve with grese & laid plasterwise thereon.   

¶ For stitches. E  
¶ For tena●mon/ costiveness/ or stitch. seethe the roots of serve/ of tapsebarbe/ & malowes sudden together in wine or in water/ & let the patient take the smoke thereof at the fundament or in any other painful place/ & wash it with the same liquor.   

¶ For the flux F  
¶ Against flux of the womb/ take the roots of serve/ roses/ wild cresses fig tree leaves/ and flowers of camomile/ of each alike moche/ and beaten together/ and seethe them in rain water till the water be half wasted/ and than receive the smoke/ and wash the feet in the said water.   

¶ To draw out iron or thorn. G  
¶ To draw out yren/ thorn or other thing pricked in the flesh. Take the rote of serve and the cind of a fennel rote meddled with honey and sudden in a pan till it be thick/ and lay it thereto and it will draw it out.    

¶ De Fragraria. S●awbetyes. Ca C.lxxv.  
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FRagraria is an herb called strabery. It groweth in woods and grenes/ and shadowy places/ & is principally good against all evils of the milt. The juice thereof drunken with honey profiteth marvelously.  

¶ For the breathe. A  
¶ For them that take breath with pain as it were sighing. The juice thereof take in drink with white pepper healeth it Strawberries eaten helpeth choleric persons/ comforteth the stomach/ and quencheth thirst    

¶ De Fystularia. Ca C.lxxvi  
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FIstularia is an herb/ some call it taglossana. This herb is like mariorayne/ but it is grener/ & hath a yellow sede as .v. lived grass The rote thereof is small & brown. It is principally good to heal fystulaes. If the herb he bruised and laid thereto/ or the juice put in the hole of the sore. The powder of this herb laid upon wounds bindeth and resowdreth mightily.   

¶ De faseolis Ca C.lxxvii.  
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FAseoli been grains so called and be hot in the middle of the second degree and moist in the end of the same. They be known to be moist because they dry not as other grains/ and though they dry yet they may not be kept long. & therefore they breed course & gross humours/ and swelling winds and engender horrible dreams/ and troublous. There be of them white and brown. and the white been moister and less hot/ and therefore they be of gross nourishing/ & of hard digestion and engender course humours of phlegm. And to make them soft they must be sudden in water and branched out of the husks/ and than sudden in water and oil/ and common/ and pepper put thereto and so be eaten. When the white faceoles been green they ought to be purgeth fro their husks/ and eaten with salt soon/ orygan/ calament/ common/ and pepper/ & pure strong wine drunken thereto. The brown faseoles be of less moistness than the white/ and therefore they do great operation.   

¶ De faba inversa. Ca C.lxxviii  
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FAba inversa is an herb that hath thick and big leaves & fat & a white rote. It is hot & dry.  

¶ For apostumes A  
¶ For hot apostumes stamp these leaves with fresh porks grese/ & make a plaster and lay to it. It easeth the pain/ ripeth it/ and wasteth the heat.   

¶ For brenning. B  
¶ To heel a brenning/ meddle the juice of this herb meddled with oil of roses and anoint the place.    

¶ De faba communi. beans Ca C.lxxix.  
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FAba be common beans. There be divers manner in kind of cold and heat. For some be eaten green/ and other dry when they be old & wydred. The green be cold and moist in the first degree they breed nourishing of very gross and raw humours/ and cause winds in the upper parts of the womb/ and therefore they green the stomach. Drye beans been cold and dry in the first degree. They engender blood not so ill and nourish better than barley for two causes One cause is/ for they be of gross & thick substance/ and abideth longer in the members. And barley hath a swift substance and light/ and departed anon fro the members/ and therefore it nourish but little The second cause is because the beans cause many great winds the swell the flesh as leneyn doth the paste. And therefore breedeth fume in the womb that mounteth in to the heed and brain and grieveth them/ and causeth many strange dreams And for because that beans of their nature do breed winds. It can not be taken away by artyfyce or craft of seething nor otherwise. Galyen saith that beans used in meats cause swelling/ and be hard to digest/ but by medicine they help to spette out the humours of the breast & longs for they have virtue to run. And therefore they abide not so long in the stomach as other course meats do. They have all virtue to cleanse and to scour/ for they es●se the skin outward if it be washed often with bean meal.  

¶ For apostumes. A  
¶ If they be laid to aposteme of the breasts/ or genytories in manner of a plaster they will spread and dissolve the matter. And all this that we have of their virtue is in their pith for the rind is stiptic & hath no running virtue. And therefore we seethe the leaves with the rinds in vyne●gre & give them to such as have simple flux of the womb by default of virtue contentyve of the bowels. The beans that be white and thick and not to old aught to be taken and be dressed in divers manners/ for they be of divers actions. They may be sudden or roasted/ they that be sudden in water be best/ for the water bereaveth them moche wind and boystousnesse specially if the water be changed in seething/ and this manner of seething may be done in the husks or cods/ and without them. They that be sudden or dressed with the husks or cods swelleth and be hard to digest for the styptycyte and dryness of the husks letteth them to avoid lightly out of the belly/ & the long abiding there necessarily breedeth winds. ¶ They that be dressed without the husks swelleth not so moche and be soon digested/ and if they be dressed with hot things as pepper/ ginger/ or oil of almonds it is a perfit medicine to provoke the work of lechery. And if they be put in pottage with mint/ calament/ or common their wentosyte is lessed. ¶ They that be roasted be less windy/ but they be hard to digest. But if they be put in water after that they be roasted/ & eaten with mints/ orygan/ and common/ they less part of their ventosytees. Dyascorydes saith young beans noye the stomach more than the old.   

¶ For aposteme B  
¶ If beans be meddled with meal of fenugreek it helpeth the aposteme that cometh behind the ears if it be laid thereto plasterwise.   

¶ For the eyen C  
¶ If they be bruised or chawed and laid to the temples they let the humours to fall in to the eyes ¶ If a bean be parted in two and lay one half of it to the place that a horsleche hath souked it will staunch the blade. They soften the breasts that be to hard by milk that is crudded in they.   

¶ For kyrnelles. D  
¶ If the be meddled with glayre of an egg and old oil they dissolve/ and waste kernels.   

¶ For the fundament. E  
¶ For the fundament that cometh out a sovereign remedy. Take all black beans and grind them very small and sarce them well and powder it on the fundament & than put it in again. Than seethe the said meal in a pan and meddle it with white wine/ and let it seethe till it be thick/ & than spread it on a linen cloth plaisterwyse & lay it as hot on the fundament as may be suffered/ and remove it twice or thrice a day/ and renew it always/ and ye shall be hole.    

¶ De fungis. Mussherons. Ca C.lxxx.  
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FVngi been mussherons. They be cold and moist in the third degree and that is showed by their violent moisture. There be two manners of them/ one manner is deadly & fleeth them that eateth of them and be called todestoles/ and the other doth not. They that be not deadly have a gross gleymy moisture that is disobedient to nature and digestion/ and be perilous and dreadful to eat & therefore it is good to eschew them/ such as eat them and fear not to fall inconvenience seethe them in water and meddle them with ginger/ pepper/ caruy/ calauant/ or orygan and such other/ and than drink old wine/ pure/ and strong. And they that be of cold complecyon/ after them take green ginger/ dyateryon/ pyperyon/ socergenne/ and reyacle. The deadly mussherons been of divers actions after their diversity/ and sleeth by their exceeding great cold & moisture that is in the fourth degree/ some slay for by their gleymynesse cause opilation and stopping in the veins and pores/ & breed boisterous humours that run from one member to an other/ some slay by the evil quality of the place that they grow in/ as by rusti iron/ rotten cloth or wood or nigh the hole that serpent's breed in or they that grow by great trees that have glewmy humours/ & froth. The signs of them that be deadly is a slimy softness as they were puffed and be of thick substance/ and if they lie a while broken they will rot. If any eat them unweting/ the best remedy is to eat pepper/ or drink nitre with oil/ or ashes with vinegar/ or cocks dirt or hens dirt with dyneygre and honey. The decoction of calament/ of orygan of ysope and other like is good and likewise cappres/ rue/ common psylle/ pepper/ carvi/ oil camamyll/ and mastic/ for they help greatly.   

¶ De ferula. Ca C.lxxxi.  
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FErula is an herb moche like fennel but it is higher & groweth in great quantity in a land called Calabre.   

¶ De felice dicto os munda. Heferue. Ca C.lxxxii.  
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FIlex masculus is heferue/ it groweth not so high as the other. The rote thereof is forked in divers twigs & branches & spreadeth on the earth ¶ For falling of the hear stamp the rote & seethe it in water till the thrde part of the water be wasted & make lie therewith & wash the heed often & it will cause the hear to grow  person putting something into an oven (?)   

¶ De fulygo. Soot. Ca C.lxxxiii  
FVligo is the soot that cleaveth & fasteneth to the chimney of the smoke of wood. If this soot be put in and powdre and crybled or sarced & confyct with oil of nuts/ and quick silver put thereto quenched with man's spittle and an ointment made therewith it healeth salt phlegm and spreading tetters/ probatum est.   

¶ De Fycu. figs Ca C.lxxxiiii.   depiction of plant 
FIcus been figs/ some call them coryces. There be white & black yasar saith that the fig is the best fruit of all fruits and that nourisheth best/ nevertheless by their moistness they engender gross humours. The fig is hot & dry of nature. But there is great diversity in the heat & dryth of figs after their divers nature's/ for some be wild and some tame. The tame is in two manners/ both green and dry. Also green figs be in two manners.  
¶ Some be perfitly ripe and some not: That which is raw and not perfectly ripe is less hot and more dry because the earthy parts hath most might/ & yet they have hid humours the giveth them a sharpness and dryth in the second degree And hippocras saith that the longer the fig is or it be ripe the bigger it is and less hot. If they be sudden and laid upon kernels and hard knops they dissolve and spread them. If they be meddled with nitre and vineygre they be good for fistula and blains in the heed/ if they be meddled with honey they will heal the biting of a dog and slimy sores/ if they be meddled with branches of wild popy they draw broken bones out of wounds/ if they be meddled with wax they spread and waste apostumes. ¶ The fig perfectly ripe that is yet green and not dry is hot in the mids of the first degree. It is composed of three things. The rind or skin/ the sede and the pith or meats. The seed is of no more nourishing than gravel or stones. The rind very dry/ and is hard to digest. The pith called the meat of the fig/ is the nourishing part. And Dyascorydes saith that they quench superfluous heat and thirst and provoketh sweat ¶ Drye figs is hot in the beginning of the second degree and dry in the middle of the first and therefore the chafe/ and cause thirst and turn in to choleric humours. And nevertheless they be most nourishing of all other fruits/ & swelleth jest. But if they find humours in the stomach they dygest it lightly/ and turneth it to good humours.  
and cleanseth the body of all ill humours They provoke urine/ and cleanse the breast and the lungs/ the reins and the bladder of gross humours/ yet nevertheless they be not exempt fro inflation and ventosytees/ but they bred some or little. And who so will eschew that they do no impedement eat them fasting and after them eat calament/ ameos/ or genger/ or ysope and such other if ye be of moist complexion. But if ye be choleric eat after them oxizacra. And if ye have them better nourishing/ & breed cleaner blood/ eat figs with small nuts or wall nuts.  

¶ For the lungs. A  
¶ If they be sudden with ysope they cleanse the longs/ and heal the old cough.   

¶ For apostumes. B  
¶ gargarism made with the decoction of figs spreadeth & wasteth apostumes in the pipes of the lungs and in the sides of the tongue/ if they be sudden in wine and taken in a clyster they appease ache of the womb caused of gross humours.  
If they be sudden with gourds and fenygreke and laid to aposteme they lose & waste it.    
¶ Thus endeth the herbs beginning with. F.   

¶ And beginneth the herbs beginning with. G.  

¶ De gariofilis. Clowes. Ca C.lxxxv.  
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GAriofilis or claws be hot & dry in the third degree som● saith in the second degree 〈◊〉 to agree in one we say 〈◊〉 be clowes that in swetnesse● nature/ and growth be perfit & of shar●● savour/ and they be hot and dry in the third degree. But there be some that 〈◊〉 weyker in their qualities & may be ●ay●● hot in the second degree. Clowes is the fruit of a tree that groweth in ynde. 〈◊〉 they be ripe they may be kept .v. years 〈◊〉 great virtue And ten years without corruption & they must be kept in places/ not to moist nor to dry. For in to moist places they will rot/ & in to dry places they shr●●ke and wydre. They ought to be choose that have flat sides/ for it is sign that they have some substauncyall and natural moisture. They that be somewhat smooth & hollow of their nature & that puttgeth out any moisture when they be pressed with the nails of the fingers be crasted and countrefayt in this manner. They be put in a moist vessel/ or in a were cloth/ and than dried in the air because that moistness shall not appear/ but they be known by their savour and by that they put out more liquor than the good/ and be not smooth nor flat also they be countrefayt thus small powder of good clowes is confyct with vinegar & sweet wine/ and than bind naughty clowes in a cloth/ and put them in the said confection all night/ & they take humour of the wine and sharp savour of the good clowes/ and they can be scantly known/ but at the beginning. For the sharp savour is more without than within/ for if ye feel the inner part with your tongue ye shall feel but little or none of sharpness/ & also the can not last passing twenty days Clowes have virtue to comfort by their good odour/ and have virtue to divide & waste humours by their qualities.  

¶ For digestion. A  
¶ To comfort digestion take the wine that clowes/ and fennel seed is sudden in.   

¶ For the breathe. B  
¶ Against letting of the breathe caused of cold/ lay tragacanth a night in barley water till the water become gleymy/ than confect powder of clowes & gomme arabic in the same water/ and make pylles and hold them a good while under the tongue and than swallow them.   

¶ For the brain. C  
¶ To comfort the brain/ use the broth that they be sudden in and put in to the nose.   

¶ For flux D  
¶ Against flux of the womb caused by sharpness of medicines/ and when squamony cleaveth to the sides and sinews of the stomach/ and against choleric vomit put ix or ten clowes in a fyolle of glass with rose water and mastycke/ and let the patient use it blood warm/   

¶ For the heart. E  
¶ Against pain of the heart and swooning use the powder of clowes with juice of borage. The leaves of the tree that clowes grow on/ and the wood thereof and galingale have the virtue of clowes/ bu● the clowes be stronger/ and the leaves next/ & than galingale/ and than the wood of clowes.    

¶ De genciane. Felwort or baldymony Ca C.lxxxvi.  
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GEncyan is hot and dry in the iii degree. It is an herb so named/ the rote thereof is good in medicines/ and not the herb. It is gathered in the end of ver and dried in the son/ and may be kept good three years. That is to be chosen that is stiff and smooth and hath a yellow colour/ and that powdreth not when it is broken/ and is not full of small holes. It hath virtue to withdraw consume & waste humours/ and to open the veins/ for it is diuretic.  

¶ For the breathe. A  
¶ Against the pain of the breathe called ●ima if it be of long countenance. Take the powder thereof with wine & varly water/ or else use it with meats or with new breed.   

¶ For falling evil B  
¶ Against epilence/ take the powder thereof with juice of wild sawge.   

¶ Against biting of venomous beasts C  
spread powder of gencyan upon the sore & drink the same with juice of mint.    

¶ Dr galanga. Galyngale. Ca C.lxxxvii  
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galingale is hot and dry in the second degree. Some say that it is a tree & some say that it is a bush or a shrub. Dyascorydes saith it is a rote that is found beside a tree in inde and in Perce that hath in it a manner of rote laden with earth. It may be kept .v. years without corruption. Galyngale is to be taken that hath a brown colour/ and heny after the matter thereof and hath a sharp savour That that is white and light is to be refused. It hath virtue to comfort by the soft savour thereof/ and hath might to spread/ consume/ and waste humours by the qualities thereof. It is countrefayt by meddling of the roots of bystorte/ and reeds/ but they be son known/ for the rote of reeds is werysshe of savour/ and the rote of bystorte is rank/ but galingale is sharp and of soft savour.  

¶ For the stomach A  
¶ To comfort digestion and against pain of the stomach caused of cold or wind drink the wine that it is sudden in.   

¶ For the brain. B  
¶ To comfort the brain/ put it in to the nostrils.   

¶ For the heart C  
¶ For passion of the heart and swooning/ take powder of galingale with juice of borage. It is very good.    

¶ De Galbano. Ca C.lxxxviii  
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Galbanum is hot and dry in the third degree/ & moist in the first/ some saith that it is a gum/ but as Dyascorydes saith it is the tears of a tree called ferulla. In summer there dropeth a liquor out of the plants that hardeneth against them/ & some cleave the twig because it shall drop the more/ some meddle it thus/ they put little sticks among it. Some meddle good galbanum with moche powder of colofony and with blanched beans stamped. Galbanum that is white pure as armoniac is best & it may be kept long. It hath virtue to draw and waste humours/ and to suage/ soften/ ripe/ and unbind.  

¶ For the breathe A  
¶ Against letting of the breathe called asmatyke. Take two drams of galbanum with a rear egg or with barley water.   

¶ For lethargy. B  
¶ Against litargy put galbanum on hot coals and let the patient take the smoke at his neither end with a fonnell.   

¶ For the milt. C  
¶ Against hardness of the milt lay it iii nights in vinegar/ and make a decoction and strain it/ and put the said straining in a clean vessel with wax & oil/ and make a plaster that galbanum surmounteth/ or make a syronie that wax surmounteth in quantity of galbanum. But the best is to make an ointment mean between soronie and plaster.   

¶ To break aposteme. D  
¶ To break and ripe apostumes lay it on them.   

¶ For to the ache. E  
¶ For the tooth ache wrap galbanum in wax and lay it about the teeth/ but let the wax be outward because of the taste of galbanum But or it be put to use it ought to be cleansed in this manner. first cleave it and scrape it within and take away the barks/ & to make it clener strain it through a linen cloth. Dyascorydes saith that it ought to be sudden in warm water/ & that that fleeteth above be cast away. Or otherwise put galbanum in a linen cloth and seethe it in water/ and that that is good will come out and the bad abide in the cloth.   

¶ For worms in the womb. F  
¶ For worms in womb make pylles of galbanum and anoint them and honey/ & use them. Ye may use iii or four    

¶ De gummo arabico. Gomme arabyke. Ca C.lxxxix.  
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GOmme arabic/ is hot & moist in the first degree/ and hath the complexion and nature of tragacanth This is a coming gomme called arabic because great quantity thereof is found in araby. And there be three manners of it/ one is white and clear and that is the best and aught to be put in cold medicines/ & specially in an electuari called cold dragagant The other two manners of gum arabic is/ one is yelove and the other brown/ and the clearest is best. These two manners of gum is to be used in hot medicines that gomme arabic is written in or gum saracene. It may be kept long. If it be found in recepts that ye take gomme with out other thing put thereto/ it is to wite gomme arabic. It hath virtue to release to moist/ to sawge/ and to join.  

¶ For the tongue A  
¶ Against sharpness/ and dryth of the tongue/ put this gum in water till the water be slimy/ and with that slime moist & rub the tongue/ or bind the gum in a thin linen cloth/ and put it in water till it begin to melt and with the same cloth rub the tongue it will take away the vice thereof.   

¶ For vomit B  
¶ For vomit caused of retentive weakness/ take the powder of gum and powder of canell.   

¶ For spitting of blood. C  
¶ For them that spit blood if it come of the membres in the bulk/ seethe very small powder of this gum in juice of plantain and with all together make pylles and let the patient hold them under his tongue till they be releuted and soft/ and than swallow them/ and let these pills be confycte in water that dragagant hath lain in/ in such quantity that the water become gluey and thick/ and put thereto powder of amidom or penettes But if this blood come of the nourishing members/ as the stomach/ the liver/ the milt/ and the bowels/ this powder aught to be taken with juice of plantain or with water that dragagant hath soaked in   

¶ For bloody flux. D  
¶ Against bloody flux of the womb seethe this powder in rose water/ or rain water and drink it. Or give this powder in meats with powder of mommye. Mommye is the powder that abideth in the sepultures of cropses that have been confycte with spices after the custom of the jews and as we keep the bodies of great lords fro rotting. For the same flux put of this gum with a turtle or a pigeon in powder/ and give the same powder to the pacy cut in meats. And if the flux be caused of the neither bowels/ take this powder in clyster.   

¶ For bleeding at the nose. E  
¶ For bledinge at the nose meddle this powder & powder of bull armenyke with rose water/ and make a plaster to the temples And it is also good for flux of the nose meddle powder of this gum with powder of mommye and put it in to the nose.   

¶ For the breast. F  
¶ Against all cold & dryness of the breast the water that the powder of gum arabic is sudden in is good.    

¶ De Gariofilata. Anens. Ca C.xC.   depiction of plant 
GAriofilata is an herb that is hot and dry in the second deg●●  
¶ There is difference between gariofilatum/ and gariofilata/ for gariofilatum is a confection that clowes is put in/ but gariofilata is an herb common enough/ and is called geloffre or sanemonde. The rote thereof hath sent of clowes/ howbeit it hath more virtue in the leaves than in the rote/ and the leaves ought to be put in medicines but not the rote. It hath more virtue green than dry/ & may be kept but one year/ and it hath strength to spread/ waste/ and release humours/ & also to open the veins of the body.  

¶ For colic. A  
¶ Against cylyke passion seethe it in salt water and lay it plasterwise to the belly behind and before.   

¶ For the flowers. B  
¶ To cause menstrue to slow wash the natural parts with wine that this herb is sudden in. And with the same herb sudden in oil of muscat make a suppository.   

¶ For digestion. C  
¶ To comfort digestion/ and for pain in the stomach and bowels caused of cold humours or winds/ drink the wine that it is sudden in.    

¶ De herba Indica. Gith. Cokyll. Ca C.xci  
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GYth is an herb hot and dry in the second degree. It groweth in the wheet and hath black sedes tryangled or syded/ and is called herba Indica/ but the masters call it Nigella/ as is showed here after in. N. This seed hath virtue to provoke urine because it is somewhat bitter/ & it hath virtue to dysparce/ and waste humours.  

¶ For the veins A  
¶ For stopping of the veins of the milt and liver/ and letting of urine as strangury and dyssury/ and for ylyake passion/ or gnawing of the belly/ & against pain of the stomach caused of wind. For all these things take the wine that it is sudden in/ and also of the powder in meats.   

¶ For hemorrhoids. B  
¶ For swollen hemorrhoids. seethe the powder thereof in juice of tapsebarbe and wet cotton therein and lay it on them.   

¶ For worms in the womb. C  
¶ For worms in the womb/ take this powder with honey and of the same powder with juice of wormewoodd make a plaster/ & lay it about the navel.   

¶ For worms in the ears. D  
¶ For worms in the ears/ confycte it with juice of arssmert or persicaria/ and put it in the ears.    

¶ De Milio solis. Gromyll/ or lychwale. Ca C.xcii.  
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GRanum solis is an herb so called and so is the seed/ and is also called milium solis that is all one milium solis and granum solis. This seed is called gramyll in french and gromyll in english & it is clear and white shining and therefore it is called grain of the son and it may be kept ten years. And hath virtue to cause urine/ and to unstop the conduits of it. The wine that it is sudden in healeth strangury and dyssury/ and likewise doth the powder thereof only put in meats/ and helpeth against ylyake passion/ and it is a seed greatly used.   

¶ De gallitrico. Clarey. Ca C.xciii.  
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Gallitricum is a herb that groweth in sandy and dry places & is also named centrum galley. It is good to mundyfy and cleanse the matryce/ if the woman make a bathe often with it or wash her often with the water that it is sudden in & is good for to cause menstrue to run that be retained.  

¶ For the stone. A  
¶ For the stone the juice of this herb given to drink breaketh it marvelously. The seed thereof confyct with juice of fennel cleanseth the eyen that be full of filth.   

¶ For the feet. B  
¶ For the pain of the feet and the legs and for shrunken sinews let the patient be often anointed with juice of this herb for it helpeth moche.    

¶ De galla. Galls nuts. Ca C.xciiii.  
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gall nuts be cold and dry in the second degree/ they be the fruit of oaks There be some that be big and smooth without and full of ●●●es and they be nought. But there be other found● in the region of Asye that be small and 〈◊〉 full of hooles/ and of them the bigest be best/ they have virtue to restrain & close.  

¶ For the flux. A  
¶ For the flux of the womb/ make a plaster of the powder of galls with the gleyre of an egg and vinegar and lay to the reins and to the neither part of the belly. Also gall nuts sudden in rain water and the patients belly bathe therewith/ is very good/ and if the flux were bloody if it came by vice of the neither bowels the water of barley that powder of galls is sudden in & ministered with a clyster helpeth moche ¶ For vomit caused by weakness of virtue retentive or by abundance of choleric humours. seethe gall nuts in vinegar and wet a sponge in the same and lay it to the stomach. To cease menstrue the runneth to moche.  the person in rayn-water that galls be sudden in/ or meddle the powder with juice of plantain/ and put it in the conduit with an instrument proper therefore or make a suposytory of stiff substance and put it in/ or wete cotton in the said juice and put it to the place.   

¶ For bleeding at the nose. B  
¶ For bleeding at the nose/ confycte this powder with juice of bursa pastoris/ and make a tent thereof and put in to the nose and lay a plaster to the temples made of galls with white of an egg. Powdre of galls laid upon wounds closeth and resowdreth them.   

¶ For die hear black C  
¶ To die hear in black that is white or grey Take heavy galls & not full of holes & seethe them in oil and wring them well between two clothes till they be well swollen/ and that they steyne black than take them out of the oil and let them dry/ & make fine powder of them. Than take the bark of the black roots and stamp them well and put it in rain water/ and set it to seethe and put thereto the powder that was made of the galls/ and with the same decoction anoint the beard or hear/ and let them dry alone/ and than wash them with warm water that the skin be not stained nor thy hands.    

¶ De genestula woodyp. Ca C.xcv  
GEnestula is an herb like to broom/ but it is less and hath smaller branches and twigs and hath a white flower/ and a reed sede as burst or fragon/ or kneholme which be all one but genesta hath a yellow flower. It is cold and dry/ and hath might to restrain & close.  

¶ For menstrues. A  
¶ To restrain excessive menstrues. The woman must be bathe with water that this herb is sudden in Or meddle genestula with juice of plantain and make a suppository. Or make a pessayre of the said powder and juice.   

¶ For bloody flux. B  
¶ Against bloody flux the foresaid bathe is good. And the rends aught also to be put in medicines.    

¶ De genesta. Brome Ca C.xcvi.  
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GEnesta is common herb. The leue● the flowers and the sedes been good in medicine. It is hot and dry in the second degree and hath diuretic virtue. This herb provoketh urine openeth the conduits of the same/ because it is bitter and by the qualities of complexion.  

¶ For the stone. A  
¶ Agnynst the stone and other letting of urine as strangury/ and ylyake passion or gnawing in the belly.  
Take two drams of powder of broom sudden in old white wine fasting/ and it breaketh the stone and purgeth the gravel of the reins/ and suageth let of urine and ache of the womb.   

¶ For kyrnelles or kings evil B  
¶ Against kyrnelles/ give the patient in the morning fasting to drink two ounces of water of broom flowers stilled/ and it will purge the humours downwardly/ & wasteth & healeth them without breaking outward/ & also small kernels in what place they be/ or take flowers of broom green or dry/ and meddle them with meal/ & make cakes in a frying pan & eat them Or seethe the flowers of broom in water/ & put the said water in the pacientes wine and it will do him great ease.    

¶ De gramine. Quekes. Ca C.xcvii.  
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Gramen is a common herb/ and hath leaves like grass of the field/ but it is somewhat sharper/ and hath a rote that spreadeth far on the earth/ and hath divers names It hath virtue against the pain of the milt/ if it be stamped with the flowers/ and a plaster made/ and laid to the milt it will heal it.  

¶ For worms in the belly. A  
¶ For worms in the belly/ seethe this herb with the rote in water or still it & drink it/ & it is good for little children that may take no bitter things Also auctors say that it uncloseth the conduits of the milt/ of the liver/ and of the reins/ and specially the rote. And it is not greatly hot nor cold.    

¶ De galia muscata Ca C.xcviii.  
GAlia muscata is of hot and dry complexion/ some say that it is a fruit but it is a confection made of sweet smelling things with musk. And is contrefayt now in many manners.  

¶ For the stomach. A  
¶ To comfort the stomach and to void the pain caused of winds/ drink the wine that it is sudden in and it will heal. Probatum est.    

¶ De grias. Ca CC.  
GRias is an herb that groweth in a country called Lucan & it hath a marbre colour/ and four reed leaves.  

¶ For the gout A  
¶ It is good for them that have gout scyatyke. If this herb be sudden with bears grease/ and laid thereto he shall be hole in three days.    

¶ De gummi elempni. Ca CC.  
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GOmme elempni is the gum of a tree that the zarasyns call elempni They call it also gomme dolore/ or of lemons/ some say that it is a gum of fennel/ but that is not true. For it is the gum of a tree that beareth lemons beyond the see. In summer season there droppeth a substance out of these trees/ as rosin droppeth out of pine trees/ but these drop but little/ and therefore it is scant. And therefore the zarasyns countrefayt it by meddling of other gums/ & make it in round figures. This gum elempni hath great virtue and good odour/ when it is broken or cracked it is clear and bright within & is like male frankincense. It hath virtue to rejoin/ resowdre/ and keep membres fro rotting.  

¶ For sores old or new A  
¶ To heal sores old or new/ and to rejoin them make this ointment. Take gum elempni/ bores grese/ and turbentyne/ and wax and meddle them and use it   

¶ For new wounds. B  
¶ And for new wounds meddle this gum turbentyne oil of roses/ and first put them in vinegar/ and chafe and handle them well three hours/ and than put it in to the milk of a reed cow and than handle and chafe it again an hour/ and cleanse it fro the milk/ and put it in a vessel of glass to keep/ & use it when need is.    

¶ De grano fracto. Broken grain. Ca Cc.ii  
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GRaine that is broken or bruised as wheat or other that is not put in breed or passed Such grains sudden in milk as frumenty is made of wheat/ engender good blood. But if they be used to moche they breed opilation/ and stopping in the veins of the liver/ and the milt/ and causeth stone in the reins and bladder/ and specially in them that have their reins hot of nature/ or otherwise as by alteration. And all grains that be so eaten/ the bigger they be broken or ground the more stopping they be/ and therefore it is good to eschew overmuch continuing of them.   

¶ De grysomulis. Ca CC.iii.  
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GRysomules been fruits like peaches and be cold and moist in the second degree They turn in to course & gluey phlegm that cleaveth and fasteneth in the hollowness of the veins and in the liver and therefore cometh often long fevers. They be ill in all manners. And if they be used they ought to be taken afore all other meats/ and when the stomach is empty. For if they be taken after meats when the stomach is full they will noye it/ & forth with be converted in to sour humours/ & rottenness. And therefore they that will eat them/ to eschew all inconvenients take them fasting/ and use mastic/ and anise seed/ and strong old wine after them  

¶ For hemorrhoids. A  
¶ Oil that is made of their kernels. It proved against hemorrhoids/ and healeth them.    

¶ De gracia dei: Ca CC.iiii.  
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GRacia dei/ that is the grace of good is an herb that groweth in meadows and moist places. And hath stalks like three square and beareth a white flower and groweth upright as a branch. It hath virtue hot and dry in the third degree/ and hath principally might to purge phlegm/ and next choleric humours & melancholic/ if two ounces of the powder of the leaves be taken with warm water And it causeth bloody flux of the belly by the violence thereof. The remedy is/ that as soon as he that hath taken it hath been sufficiently at the chamber to wash his face with cold water and anon it will stint/ and he shall be hole. And therefore it is called the grace of good for the benefice thereof But he that ministereth it ought to know the strength of him that taketh it/ his age region/ and tyme. This herb is ●●●e the medicine centaury.   

¶ De Golgemma. Ca Cc.u  
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GOlgemma is an herb that is hot and dry/ the leaves & stalk is like stycados' citrine but the flower is like flowers of rosmary. The flower and the sedes be good in medicine. It hath diuretic virtue.  

¶ For letting of urine. A  
¶ For letting of urine/ be it dyssury or strangury/ and against ylyake passion/ the wine that the sedes or the leaves that it is sudden in profiteth moche.   

¶ For the milt. B  
¶ Against pain of the matryce caused of cold/ and against opilation of the milt and liver Take the wine that the sedes is sudden in.   

¶ For the heed. C  
¶ For cold in the heed coming of age as by to great quantity of humours. seethe all this herb in water/ and make lie of the same and wash the heed therewith. It is, marvel that it hath that propriety. It groweth on hills and specially in Pronaunce/ and about montpellier.    

¶ De gelasia: Ca Cc.vi   depiction of plant 
GElasia is an herb like to betes but the leaves be of iii colours/ reed/ green/ and yellow. Some women gathered it and set it in gardyns.  
¶ For lunatic persons It is good for them that have the falling evil/ & for lunatykes. Take three handful of the rinds of gelasia roots/ of origan/ and of centaury of each a handful and bruise them together and put thereto xxx grains of pepper and drink it three days and he shall be hole.   
¶ Thus endeth the names of herbs beginning with. G.   

¶ And here beginneth the names of herbs beginning with. H.  

¶ Hermodactilus latin. Athymeron vel Colinticon grece. Sturagen vel surumen Arabice. Ca CC.vii.  
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HErmodates been hot and dry in the third degree Hermodates is an herb about the roots of it groweth a manner of round things the which be properly called hermodates/ & be used in medicines. They be gathered in summer/ and be renewed every year. They be good that be white and stiff. They have virtue to waste humours/ to divide and spread them/ & have power to withdraw & purge phlegm.  

¶ For all aches. A  
¶ Against gout arthritic/ podagre/ and ylyake passion or wringing of the womb and against all evils caused of phlegm so that there be no feverague the medycyn called bennet/ sharped or strengthened with hermodates/ and so doth geralodion and theodoricon anacardium.   

¶ For all gouts. B  
¶ Against all gouts seethe the juice of fenel with honey/ and with the said honey take two drams of hermodates.   

¶ For the belly. C  
¶ Against pain of the belly called ylyake passion. seethe honey and put water thereto that it do not cleave/ or go out of the vessel and of the honey with two ounces of hermodates/ and an ounce of fennel seed make an electuary/ and use it in stead of the medicine bennet. And it is to wite that two or iii drams of hermodates laid at ones upon sores fretteth the deed flesh.   

¶ Against fistula. D  
¶ Against fistula confyct the powder of hermodates with soap/ and make a tent thereof and put it in the flystule or anoint a tent therewith and put it in.    

¶ De herba squinancia. Ca CC.viii.  
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Herb or grass of vine is otherwise called herb squynantyke. It groweth on hills and chiefly on the see side: And is small as grass for hay It beareth flowers at all times. The flower thereof is small and of colour as the rosemary flower/ but it is less. It ought to be gathered in the beginning of harvest and hangeth in the shadow to dry. It may be kept a year in strength but the newer it is the better it is It hath power to smooth to sowple and to soften/ to withdraw/ to waste and consume humours.  

¶ For quynsy. A  
¶ Against aposteme or swelling in the throat called squinancy/ and also against all sicknesses caused of over great quantity of moisture. seethe this herb in good old white wine in a new pot till it be half wasted/ and let the pot be covered & make a gargarism thereof/ that is to say to hold it in the mouth & bobble it up & down without swallowing. This gargarism used divers times draweth up a gleymy phlegm like the gloyre of an egg It hath been proved by divers persons.    

¶ De herucaria. Wartwort. Ca CC.ix  
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Herb rabious that some call wartwort/ because it is good for warts or ringworms is called of some faceolare because it hath leaves like faceoles but the leaves be more whytyssher It groweth in gardyns & cominly among lekes and hath a little white flower.  

¶ For the belly. A  
¶ Against wringing of the belly/ be it ylyake or colic drink a cyate that is an ounce and a half with as much wine and it will suage the pain anon.   

¶ For warts. B  
¶ Anoint warts or ringworms with juice of this herb and they will go away.   

¶ For canker or fistula. C  
¶ Against canker or fistule lay it thereon and cast powder of this herb on the canker and it will heal it wondrously/ and also the juice put in to the fistula cleanseth and healeth it marvelously.    

¶ De Herpillo. Ca Cc.x  
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HErpillus is an herb like to pewter/ but the rote diggeth in the ground and is long. This herb is resolutive/ and spreadeth/ and wasteth humours. There been two sorts of it/ one groweth in gardyns/ and the other on hills and stony places/ and it hath great virtue when it is dry and given to drink it causeth menstrue stopped to flow as if it had commandment so to do. It causeth to piss well and suageth the wrenching of the belly/ and healeth swelling of the entrails/ & appeaseth the ache of the liver/ the powder thereof in drink is for all the foresaid things and the juice drunken also.  

¶ For biting of venomous beasts. A  
¶ For biting of venomous beasts it is good/ not only in powder or in juice/ but also the herb sudden and laid thereto.   

¶ For heed ache B  
¶ For heed ache anoint it with vineygre that this herb is sudden in and oil of roses put thereto.   

¶ For frenzy. E  
¶ Against lethargy or frenzy it is good in the same manner. For vomit of blood the quantity of four drams taken with wine profiteth moche.    

¶ De herba Incensarya. Ca Cc.xi  
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HErba incensaria hath a black rote outward and within white & gommy/ and odour of incense. It groweth on high mountains The wine that it is sudden in is good against let of urine/ as strangury & dyffury. And also properly against the pain of the matryce and of the stomach if the causes come of cold.   

¶ De herba paralisi. Cowslyp or pagle. Ca Cc.xii  
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Herb paralysy that some call arthritic grow that the feet or sides of hills in watery places: The leaves thereof be like leaves of rue/ and groweth in manner of a tree.  

¶ For gouts. A  
¶ It is principally good for palsy/ arthritic/ and gouty folk. And for them that fall of the high evil/ called epilence if it be eaten or the juice with honey made in syrup/ or syrup made and drunken with the decoction of an herb called yve.    
¶ Thus endeth the names of herbs beginning with. H.   

¶ Here followeth the names of herbs that begin with. I.  

¶ De jusquiamo. Henbane. C. CC.xiii.  
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IVsquiame that is henebane is of cold complexion in the third degree/ and dry in the second It is also called cassylago/ & symphoniaca The sedes thereof is called jusquiamo/ hembane/ or cassilago & be in three manners/ white/ reed and black. The black mortifieth. The white and the reed (reasonably) may be put in medicines. If jusquiame is found in medicines. It is be known whither it shall be used inward or without. For if it be inward the sedes is to be had/ & ontwarde the herb. It hath virtue to restrain to close/ to mortify/ and to cause sleep. The seed may be kept ten years.  

¶ To cause sleep. A  
¶ To cause sleep/ seethe this herb in water and with the same water hath the feet the brows and the temples/ and lay the herb to them plasterwise. Take small powder of the seed/ and confycte it with white of an egg/ woman's milk and vinegar and make a plaster and lay to the forehead and temples.   

¶ For apostumes B  
¶ For hot apostumes/ make a plaster of this herb and at the beginning lay it to them/ or let the sede be confyct with honey and a plaster made thereof.   

¶ For bloody flux. C  
¶ For bloody flux of the womb. Make a plaster of the sedes with white of an egg and vinegar and lay to the neither part of the belly/ and to the reins.   

¶ For hot causes D  
¶ Against dolour caused of heat/ bruise this herb and lay it to the place and it will ease it.   

¶ For tooth ache. E  
¶ This herb bruised and holden between the teeth/ and than laid on the tooth that acheth suageth the pain anon.   

¶ For tooth ache. F  
¶ Against the tooth ache put the sedes upon hot coals/ and let the patient receive the smoke at his mouth/ and hold his mouth over water/ and ye shall see as it were small worms on the water. Also put this seed in a little hollow wax/ and lay it on so that the powder lyeto the tooth/ and it will slay the ache.   

¶ For the ears G  
¶ If juice of this herb be put in to the ears it suageth the ache of them/ and sleeth the worms in them.   

¶ For swellings. H  
¶ All plaster made of this herb with sheeps dung/ & a little vinegar/ abateth all manner of swellings.   

¶ For tooth ache. A  
¶ If the rote be sudden with vinegar to the third deal/ and the vinegar holden hot in the mouth it taketh away the tooth ache anon. ¶ Bind the rote of henbame to the tongue or hold it thereon and it will ease the pain.   

¶ For podagre gout. B  
¶ For podagre gout in the feet/ this herb green bound to the feet suage the pain shortly/ and profiteth marvelously.    

¶ De ysopo. Ysope Ca CC.xiiii.  
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ISope is hot and dry in the third degree/ and is of ii sorts/ the great and the less/ but they have one effect. Ysope is also called a so oneal This herb is commune/ & hath virtue in the flower/ leaves/ and rotes/ & aught to be gathered when it beareth flowers/ and dried in the shade that no smoke come to it When it should be used take the flowers and leaves and cast the stalks awye and it may be kept a year It hath might to dysperse and waste humours/ and hath diuretic virtue to unstop the conduits of urine/ & hath attractive power.  

¶ For cold cough. A  
¶ For cold cough take the wine that ysope and dry figs is sudden in. For the same electuary of this herb called dyasopus is good. The wine that ysope and fennel seed is sudden in suageth pain in the bowels  made of water that Isope is sudden in cleanseth the matryce of superflue cold humours. Or for the same a suposytory/ or a tent made of powder of ysope and oil of muscates.   

¶ For cold rheum. B  
¶ Against cold rheum or pose. Take of the powder and all the herb warmed on a tile and lay it plasterwise to the heed. If ye use powder use it in a little bag/ and if ye use the herb use it in a linen cloth.   

¶ For dig C  
¶ For the dig or dewlappe in the throat if it be fallen. seethe ysope in vinegar & bobble it in the throat without swallowing Also lift the dig up with your finger & than put powder of ysope flowers the co●● Of this herb is made these versus. Ysopus est herba/ purgans de pectore fluma. A●d pulmonis opus prestat medycamen ysopus The first verse saith that ysope purgeth the membres of the bulk. The second saith that ysope giveth remedy to the longs.    

¶ De jaro. Cuckoo pyntyll. Ca CC.xv.  
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IArus is an herb so named. It is hot and dry in the third degree It is also named aaron/ & calves foot. Some call it priests hood/ for it hath as it were a cape & a tongue in it like serpentine of dragons/ but serpentine is longer. It groweth in moist places and dry and on hills and under hedges/ and may be gathered in winter and summer. It hath great virtue in the leaves/ but more in the rote but yet it hath most virtue in the knot as that be about the rote. It is gathered & ●lowen in the mids & dried. And it hath power to lose and purge to waste & spread humours.  

¶ For the ears. A  
¶ For swelling of the ears. seethe this herb with the knots of the rote and put it in wine and oil with common and plasterwise lay to the ears.   

¶ For cold apostumes. B  
¶ For cold aposteme lay this herb with the rote and knots stamped with old grese warm to the place/ if the apostumes be new it will heal them.   

¶ For kyrnelles. C  
¶ For great kernels called kings evil while the be new/ stamp this her●ie with old grease or bears grease & lay to them.   

¶ For hemorrhoids. D  
¶ For hemorrhoids or piles/ and against all evil of the fundament. seethe this herb and tapse barb/ and bathe the patient in the same to the navel. Or bind the herbs hot in a cloth and let him sit thereon.  
¶ To cause menstrues to flow put the juice of this herb in to the conduit with an instrument proper for it/ or meddle it with the medicine called bennet/ and than used/ or with cotton wet therein and so ministered.   

¶ To cleanse the face. E  
¶ To cleanse and scour the face & to smooth the skin. Make fine powder of the knots that grow about the rote of this herb and confyct it with rose water all wasted in the son four or .v. times & then meddle it with rose water/ and anoint the face therewith. The powder of this herb or of the knotries about the rote laid upon sores frereth the deed flesh.    

¶ De Ire. Bleweflourdelyce. Ca Cc.xvi  
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IRis or ireos is hot and dry in the second degree. Iris and ireos be like of virtue/ of leaves/ and fashion of flowers/ but Iris hath a blewysshe reed flower/ and ireos a white. But gladyolus & spatula be also like them/ but gladiolus hath a yellow flower/ & spatula hath none. white ireos hath many names/ as gladiolus/ sifo sifus/ iris africa/ craticon and matriocilon. The rote of Iris is used and ought to be gathered in the end of ver and may be kept two years in bounty. The roots of Iris and ireos be put one for an other in medicines for they be like in strength & proprete. This rote hath diuretyke virtue & unstoppeth the conduits of urine and divideth and spreadeth humours there of/ and also of the liver and milt.  

¶ For the bulk. A  
¶ Against pain of the members in the bulk as the longs/ and other that serve to the breathe and against opilation of the liver and milt/ of the bladder/ and pain of the stomach. Drink the wine that this rote is sudden in. The rote of ireos dry and put to powder fretteth deed flesh of wounds if it be laid thereon   

¶ For web in the eyes B  
¶ For the great web of the eye called pannus. Make a colyre that is a thin thing to drop in the eyes   

¶ For pain of the heart. C  
¶ For pain of the heart. Take the sedes of ireos with milk of an ass or of a goat and drink it warm/ and it will suage the pain.    

¶ De Ipoquistidis. Toad stoles. Ca CC.xv.  
Ipoquistidos' is cold and dry of complexion in the second degree. It is a manner of mussheron that groweth at  depiction of plant trees roots/ and is called rose canine/ th●e is dogs rose. They be gathered 〈◊〉/ & the gleymy juice is wrong out and 〈◊〉 son to dry/ and is stirred tw●●e o●●h●●● every day. It ought to be kept in a place not over moist nor dry for fere of corrupting It may be kept two years in strength and hath virtue to restrain/ and fasten.  

¶ For flux. A  
¶ Against flux of the womb caused of choleric humour or feebleness of ret●●n ●e virtue. Confyct and meddle ●poqui●il 〈◊〉 with rose water and give it to the pacy●nt to drink. Or make a plaster of ●●●●●stidos and juice of plantain and gle●● of an egg and lay it to the reins and ●●ther part of the belly.   

¶ For vomit. B  
¶ To restrain vomit/ lay the same to the stomach.  
¶ To restrain overflowing of mē●●●e Make a suppository of the juice of mountain meddled with Ipoquistidos.    

¶ De junipero. Ienepre. Ca Cc.xvi  
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IEenepre is hot and dry in the .iii. degree. It is also called annifrouttes or arteotides. If jenepre be●oūde in recepts it is the sedes. This seed ought to be gathered in harvest and may be kept two years. It hath virtue to divide spread/ and dissolve humours/ & to waste and consume them.  

¶ For flux. A  
¶ Against flux of the womb caused because that squamony used cleaveth to the sinews and sides of the stomach and bowels. seethe Ienepre sedes in water & bathe the patient to the navel/ and rub the grieved parts therein.   

¶ For strangury. B  
¶ For letting of urine as strangury dyssury/ and wringing of the womb called ylyake passion. Take the wine that these sedes be sudden in. Of this herb is made oil in this manner. Set a pot in the earth & fasten a quill of brass or iron in the mouth of it/ & stop it so close that there may nothing come out but through the quill than ●●ke another pot and fasten the quyll close with clay in the bottom thereof surely & fill this upper pot with jenepre wood & cover and stop it so close that nothing may pass but through the quill that is in the bottom. Than make fire about the pot so filleth with wood & it will drop oil in to the neither pot. But though there be but little yet it is of great virtue. This oil profiteth moche aghast fever quartain in this manner. give it to the patient with his meats/ or otherwise when the matter of the fever is first digested/ and caseth of gross humour And also the fever must be caused of melancolic humour natural and not by adustion/ or brenning of other humours.   

¶ For ylyake passion. C  
¶ Against yliake passion give of this oil to the patient with wine/ and anoint the place against the pain.   

¶ For falling evil. D  
¶ Against the falling evil anoint the thine of the patients back with this oil   

¶ To break the stone. E  
¶ To break the stone/ put this oil in to the towel of the yard with an instrument called syringe.   

¶ For the breathe. F  
¶ Against letting of breathe of long time caused of cold/ put this oil in to the patients meats or other wise/ or give him wine that the sedes is sudden in with figs.    

¶ De Iperyco. Herb Iohn/ or saint johannis wort. Ca CC.xix.  
IPericon is called saint johnns' wort this herb is commune and groweth in  depiction of plant plain fields and bushes/ and hath many small holes in the leaves/ and beareth a yellow flower. It ought to be gathered in june or july when it flowereth and hanged in a shade to dry. If it be found in recepts to take yperycon to be used at the mouth the flower is to be had And if it be to make a plaster or ointment/ all the herb is to be had without the roots/ for they be nought.  

¶ For the liver. A  
¶ To unstop all the conduits of the liver and the milt & to take away letting of urine as strangury or dyssury/ give the patient wine that it is sudden in.   

¶ For jaundice. B  
¶ For jaundyse or pain of the stomach caused of long sickness the wine that it is sudden in. Or meddle this herb green with meal and let the patient eat it. Or eat the herb with an egg and let the patient continue it xl days.    

¶ De Iparis vel cauda equina Ca Cc.xx  
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IPerium is an herb that is called mares tail. Some call it tricamathio/ other anabisit/ other equilis exium/ other equicialis/ and other ●perium. This herb is hot and dry/ and is restrayntyve/ and fastening.  

¶ For flux. A  
¶ Against bloody flux of the womb/ drink the juice of this herb and it will staunch it anon.   

¶ For spitting of blood. B  
¶ For them that spette blood the juice drunken is good/ but it is better to chaw the herb and to swallow it by little & little.    

¶ De Lambrusca. Wild wine. Ca CC.xxi.  
INantes and lambruske is all one when Inantes or Inanti is found in recepts it is the flower. It ought to be gathered in the beginning of summer/ and dried in the son and this herb may be kept two years in a dry place.  

¶ For cough.  
¶ For great cough/ seethe the flower thereof in water or wine/ & let the patient drink the said broth. Or make powder of the flowers and drink it with wine.   

¶ For cough. B  
¶ For strong cough of the stomach seethe the flowers of Inantes or the roots in wine & let it be drunken fasting to the quantity of three ounces.    

¶ De juiubes. Ca CC.xxii.  
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IViubes be fruits that be hot & dry in the first degree they nourish but little/ & be of hard digestion they noye the stomach and breed phlegm. But nevertheless when they be green they quench and put out heat of the blood/ and they that been ripe take away the sharpness and drieth of the bulk/ and comforteth it and the lungs/ and Galyen saith that juiubes to help maladies than to preserve health   

¶ De herba fullonum. Ca CC.xxiii.  
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INdacus is an herb that hath flowers like cools wortes/ and is the same that men with die in blue colour. There is found moche of it in divers places/ This herb laid green upon wounds rejoineth sowdreth cleanseth them  

¶ To stance blood at the nose. A  
¶ To staunch flux of blood at the nose. Stamp this herb and lay it to the temples/ and it will cease the blood.    

¶ De Ina. Ca CC.xxiiii.  
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INa is an herb that hath rough & small leaves near together almost without space/ and spreadeth on the earth & hath a yellow flower and groweth on hilly and sandy dry places/ and beareth always flowers. It is hot and dry in the third degree/ and hath aperative and diuretic virtue by a bitter substance that it hath.  

¶ For dropsy. A  
¶ Against dropsy at the first/ & against opilation of the liver caused of cold make powder of this herb and give the patient two drams fasting with warm wine.   

¶ For many diseases. B  
¶ For arthritic gout/ and against palsy and the falling evil called epilence and against letting of urine/ and ylyake passion/ let the patient drink the powder fasting with warm wine/ or drink the juice of the herb and that is better.   

¶ For fever quartain. C  
¶ Against fever quartain. And for the falling evil called the malady rial. Make syrup of the juice of this herb with as much white honey/ and let the patient take it with water that the herb is sudden in. This syrup also is good against all rheum caused of cold.    

¶ De Incensaria. Ca CC.xxv.  
INcensarya is an herb so called because it smelleth like frankencens. It hath leaves like the herb amarusca/ or borage. It spread thou the ground and beareth the number of vi flowers in the mids/ and they be yellow with a speck of white in the middle/ and the flower grow not passing a finger length in height/ and have a sweet taste as honey  depiction of plant and it groweth in clean places and covertes.  

¶ For the stomach. A  
¶ For pain of the matryce and the stomach/ and against stopping of the veins of the liver and the milt/ bruise the flowers and leaves of this herb/ and meddled with meal or confyct with juice of the same herb/ and make thereof frytures or cakes/ & so be used. If the juice be drunken or the herb eaten it helpest against strangury.    

¶ De Ierubulis. Ca CC.xxvi.  
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IErubule is an herb like to onions/ and groweth in wild places and hedges.  

¶ For the joints. A  
¶ For pain of the joints seethe this herb and the onion of the rote in goats tallow with oil/ & beat them together & anoint the place of the ache and ye shall see the experience. It is good against tetters and frekens in the face/ if the rote be stamped and meddled with flower or meal of the grains called lupyns/ hereafter rehearsed and therewith anoint the face.    

¶ De Immolo albo. Ca CC.xxvii.  
IMmolum album is an herb so named. It is clearer than jeruble as Omer a certain master saith that a man named Mercury found this herb It hath a rote black and round/ and tycke in manner of an onion.  

¶ For the matrice. A  
¶ The herb and roots thereof stamped & laid to the matryce taketh away the pain marvelously.    
¶ Thus endeth the names of herbs that begin with. I.   

¶ And here beginneth the names of herbs beginning with. L.  

¶ De Lapdano. Ca CC.xxviii.  
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LAudane is hot and dry in the iii degree/ some say that it is the gum of a tree/ but it is not so. But it is a party of fatness that falleth in manner of a dew upon the trees and cleaveth to them and waxeth thick as lime. They that of the country beat it down with thouges or cords and take it of and wringeth or presseth it & put in the son to dry. It is often meddled with goats tryttles or tordes/ and other black powders. And it is contrefayt in so many manners that scantly in a pound is commonly found two ounces of true laudane. That is to be chosen that is heavy and black and sticketh to the hands as wax Laudane that is to black and powdreth when it is handled is corrupt for oldness or there be to many things meddled there with. It hath virtue to restrain/ to comfort/ & to chafe by the gleymynesse there of/ and hath virtue to comfort by the soft odour of it.  

¶ For rheum. A  
¶ For rheum or pose caused of cold that descendeth to the nose. Make a tent of laudane and put it in the nose. For the same/ seethe laudane and roses together in rain water/ and stop the mouth of the vessel and when it is cold enough let the patient receive the fume of the water at his mouth/ and with the same water wash his feet/ for it comforteth greatly all the sinews.   

¶ For the teeth B  
¶ For pain of the teeth when they be lose or wag in the jaw bone/ confyct laudane and mastycke together and anoint the gomes without/ and it comforteth and suageth the pain.   

¶ For the matryce. C  
¶ For coldness of the matryce/ and for suffocation of the same/ that is when the women seemeth as deed & in swoon/ for cause of fume of the matryce that mounteth to the heart/ let her receive the smoke of laudane beneath/ and than put it to the place. It comforteth moche/ & helpeth conception ¶ To raise the matryce that is availed. let the woman receive the smoke of laudane at her mouth or nose.   

¶ For the stomach. D  
¶ For pain of the stomach caused of cold take at even .v. pylles of laudane & a plaster of powder of cost.    

¶ De Liquiricia. Lycoryce. Ca CC.xxix  
LIcoryce is hot and moist temperately. It is the rote of a little tree That is to be chose that is not to big nor to slender and is yellow & that powdreth not when it is broken/ and that hath green veins. The juice of liquorice hath a self virtue if it be made thus. when the rote is green/ bete it well & seethe it in water till the water be wasted/ than queses or press out the juice of the sudden roots and ●et the lace to dry in the son/ and make  depiction of plant round balls or pelletes/ some countrefayt the juice in this manner/ they make very fine powder of licoryce/ and put powder of the juice aforesaid thereto & seethe them in water and honey/ and than dry it in the son/ but this manner of doing is not so delicious in taste nor so black.  

¶ For the breast. A  
¶ Water that liquorice or the juice is sudden in is good against all sicknesses of the breast & for the aposteme of the ribs called pleuresy   

¶ For the cough. B  
¶ The wine that it is sudden in is good against all coughs/ & for the same electuary confyct of juice of liquorice with honey. Licoryce chawed & holden in the mouth on the tongue/ taketh away the roughness of the throat and stomach/ and apeaseth thirst.    

¶ De lapide lazaro. Azure. Ca Cc.xxx  
THe stone of azure is of dry complexion & so is the stone armenyake but it is not determined in what degree/ the azure stone is a vain of the earth the azure is made of & so is the armonyake stone. Because moche is found in Armeny it is not countrefayt/   person sitting behind table covered with stones 
The azure stone is to be chosen that hath colour of the sky/ and hath some colours of gold within it. And that which hath a paler colour than the sky is earthy. The stone of armeny is more earthy/ light/ and more whytysshe. They may be kept long with out corruption. These two stones purge & waste melancolic humours.  

¶ For melancholy. A  
¶ For melancholy give these two stones sufficiently to drink with water the Seine is sudden in.   

¶ For fever quartain. B  
¶ For fever quartain take them with same decoction that purgeth melancolic humours.   

¶ For hemorrhoids. C  
¶ Against pain of the milt and hemorrhoids/ take them with that/ that fenel sede is sudden in.   

¶ For the heart.  
¶ For pain of the heart called cardyake passion/ give them with juice of borage & of the bone in the heart of a heart. These stones been good against all pains and diseases of melancolic humours. And the powder of the said stones ought to be meddled in medicines after that the decoctions be made/ but not in the decoctions. And these stones must be washed or they be put in medicines in this manner. Put two drams of powder of one of these stones in a stiff vessel/ as a piece of silver/ and put water thereto and stir the said powder in the water till the water be troubled/ and than cast the water out/ and put clean water to it/ and stir it again in the water/ and change the water so ten or xii times till the water change colour little or nothing for the powder/ and this ought not to be given in decoction/ for it will sink to the bottom/ nor before the decoction but it may be meddled with that ye will give in a spoon with syrup or other drink or decoction. It may be given by an other manner that is better and specially when it is given to purge or void melancolic humours.   

¶ To purge melancolyke humours. D  
¶ give the decoction ordained to purge or void humours. And when the patient hath been at the stole two or three times take the powder of one of these stones as the case requireth in suffycyence. And in this manner the azure stone purgeth melancolyke humours marvelously.    

¶ De lilio. Lylly. Ca CC.xxxii.  
Lilies be hot and moist/ there be two manners/ the wild & the tame There be lilies that have reed flowers/ & that is best and hath most virtue. Other have yellow flowers. And the tame have white flowers.  

¶ To ripe apostumes. A  
¶ If they be meddled with grese and oil/ and laid on cold apostumes/ they will ripe them.   

¶ For hardness. B  
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¶ Against the hardness/ take great quantity of a lily rote with an herb called brancha ursina/ spoken of afore/ and with the rote of malowes or holy hocke/ and temper them all in wine and oil xii days/ and than strained and wax and oil put to the straining and an ointment made thereof   

¶ For colour in the face. C  
¶ To make good colour in the face/ take the knots that grow about the rote of wild lilies and dry them/ and make powder of them/ and temper the powder in rose water/ and than dried/ and serve it so three or four times. And than with the same powder in rose water anoint the face.   

¶ For redness. D  
¶ To take away overmuch redness take the knots about the wild lily rote/ if ye may let them be green/ and stamp them and meddle therewith chachume that is scum of gold/ and put powder of camfre in oil/ and at the last put quenched quick silver and make an ointment/ & anoint the patient therewith.    

¶ De licio. Ca CC.xxxiii.  
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LIcium is hot and dry in the second degree. Some saith that it is a gum/ but it is the juice of an herb called also licium that is woodbine. This herb is gathered in the beginning of summer and is beaten and the juice wrong out and dried in the son/ and than it is called licium. Licium is to be chosen that is pure/ clear/ and shining within & that which is soft and dim is nothing worth It may be kept .v. years. It is also called oculus lucidus. Because it cleareth the eyes.  

¶ For web in the eye. A  
¶ For the web in the eye while it is new & against canker of the eye caused of thick phlegm in the eye. Make licium in small powder and confyct it with rose water/ & let it stand till the water be wasted and dried up/ & than put it in rose water again till it be dry as it was afore/ and do so iiii. or .v. times/ and than confyct the said powder in rose water and put into the eye or the powder only. And if the web be old/ put with the said powder a gum called sarcocole.  
Also confyct licium with juice of fennel & put in a brassen vessel It will clear the eyes and is specially good if the dimness come within forth.   

¶ For chipping of the lips. B  
¶ For chipping/ or clyftes of the tongue or lips/ and for the wounds or hurts in the mouth confyct licium/ penettes/ & amidum in rose water and anoint the places therewith. It is a thing often proved by women of Salerne. A supository made of licium in a fever ague softeneth and departed it fro the fever of the wombbe if it be to hard.   

¶ For the gums. C  
¶ Against swelling of the gums wash and rub them often with liquor that licium is meddled with.   

¶ For frekens. D  
¶ Against frekens in the face/ meddle licium and ceruse in equal quantity together & anoint the face therewith.  
¶ Against malady of the matryce caused of cold. Make suppository or tent of a medicine called trifera mangna & upon the suppository or tent put the powder of licium/ and lay it to the place when superfluities of humours abound in the matryce/ for it purgeth and drieth it.   depiction of plant   

¶ De lingua avis. ash sede. Ca CC.xxxiiii.  
LIngua avis is the sede of ash trees that hath leaves in manner of birds tongues/ and some call them keys. It is hot and moist in the first degree/ and while it is green it hath great virtue/ and when it is dry it hath none. This herb hath virtue to moist or quench and remove lechery if it be sudden with flesh and eaten. For the same make electuary that the rote of satyrion/ dates/ and fruit called fisticis is put in/ and confyct it with honey and the juice of ash sedes. This herb sudden in barley water/ and a ptysane made thereof is good for ethic/ or consumed/ and lean persons/ and for the same/ water that they be sudden in is good/ and if sugar be put thereto it is good for them that be dry in the breast/ and is good to cleanse wounds and to resowdre and fill the flesh/ and some say that it is an herb that hath leaves like birds tongue but in stead of it ash sedes is used.   

¶ De mercuriali. Mercury. Ca CC.xxxv  
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LInotis is an herb called mercuryall/ and hath many names after divers countries. It is called alguras/ pastemon/ agiliotes/ altancus. It is hot and moist/ and is commonly sudden with flesh/ and soup the broth. To release the womb clyster made with juice of it or the water that it is sudden in with oil salt/ and honey.  

¶ For web in the eye. A  
¶ Against the web meddle juice of mercuryall with gleyre of an egg and white wine/ and wete cotton in it and lay thereto and wash it often therewith.   

¶ For the ears. B  
¶ The juice droppeth in the ears suageth the pain thereof.    

¶ De Lapacio. Reed dock. Ca CC.xxxvi  
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LApacium is an herb called dock and hath many names Some call the seed ematiphonos/ it is hot & dry/ and is in three manners. For there is lapacium dock that hath rough leaves & is of most virtue. There is another that hath round leaves & is of less virtue. And there is another that is tame that hath black speckeled leaves/ and that is best for medicines that is taken within it. This herb hath power to spread humours/ and to open veins.  

¶ For scabs. A  
¶ For the scab make this ointment seethe the juice of this herb with nut oil and clear or lyquyde pitch. and when they be sudden strain them and in the straining the powdres of gravel of wine & of chimney soot/ and it is competent for scabs or tetters.   

¶ For ringworms. B  
¶ For ringworms/ and tetters/ anoint them with powder of orpiment and juice of the dock.   

¶ To ripe apostumes. C  
¶ To ripe apostumes/ stamp the round dock and put it in oil/ or in grese and lay to them.   

¶ For the milt. D  
¶ For hardness of the milt/ meddle juice of the dock with storax liquid or clear and with gum armonyake and vinegar/ & let them lie together iii days and than seethe them and strain it/ and in the straining put thereto wax and oil and make an ointment and use it.   

¶ For the urine. E  
¶ For cumber of urine as strangury & dyssury/ seethe the dock in wine and oil and lay it to the neither part of the belly/ and it will provoke urine plenteously. The wine or water that it is sudden in unstoppeth the conduits of the milt and liver.   

¶ For dropsy. F  
¶ Against dropsy called leucoflemance/ make confections of two ounces of the juice of dockes with ii drams of esula/ and seethe them together with honey and give it to the patient.   

¶ For the king's evil. G  
¶ For new great kernels make a plaster of sharp dock stamp with grese.   

¶ For worms. H  
¶ For worms in the belly drink the juice with honey.   

¶ For phlegm in the brain. I  
¶ For phlegm that floweth in the brain meddle the juice of dock with juice of rue & put a little in the nostrils/ and do this in a stew or a very warm place.   

¶ For the breathe. K  
¶ Pancakes made of dockes with meal or eggs is good for letting of the breathe called asma/ it is good if the be eaten/ and this herb eaten raw or sudden is good against all scabs.    

¶ De Lethargy. Ca CC.xxxvii.  
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LItargium is lytargie. There be divers lytargyes. For there is lytargie of gold/ and when it is broken there is colour of gold in it. Also there is that of silver/ and there is bouche that is commely used and that is of tin/ which when tin is pured/ it is made of the same vain that tin is. Some say that there is litarge of lead/ but that that we do ocupy is of tin. litharge is of temperate coldness as some say/ and as other say it is cold & dry in the second degree. But by the words of Dyascorydes it should be temperate in cold & dryness/ & saith also lytargie is cold & stiptic. And that it is stiptic it appeareth in that it is dry/ & nevertheless it is temperate & moderate in his qualities. And for as much as the auctores have not determined what excess there is because it is so little that it is not apperceyvable the lethargy of gold is most cold & moist. lethargy hath virtue to stance to cleanse wounds/ and resoudre. The powder of litargye laid upon biles or sores that hath matter cleanseth them & closeth/ & healeth them  

¶ For the scab. A  
¶ Against scabs & specially for that that is of last phlegm/ and choleric humours Set nut oil over the fire & seethe it & put thereto powder of lethargy confyct with vinegar/ & than meddle them all together in manner of an ointment. B  
¶ For flux of the belly caused of the neither bowels/ lay litargy all hole upon the hot coals/ & spring vinegar often thereon/ & take powder of it very small the which shall be used in clyster with oil of roses or water that barley is sudden in.   

¶ For the yard. C  
¶ For the fleyeng of the yard temper litarge with oil of roses & anoint the place & it will cleanse the filthiness/ & close the wounds or sore thereof.   

¶ For heat apostumes. D  
¶ To abate the excessife heat of apostumes as of the aposteme called erisipile let the powdres of litarge & ceruse be confict with rose water & anoint all about the aposteme The litarge of gold that is called tachume is good for diseases of the eyen in this manner. Make fine powder thereof & wash it v. or vi times in rose water till it trouble not the water/ & use the said powder in the eyes with rose water only.   

¶ For the visage. E  
¶ To cleanse the visage/ & to void the dinnesse & evil colour called pannus the women have after their childing. Take hens sewte or of a goose & melt it at the fire & put powder of litarge of gold and make an ointment and use it.    

¶ De Lactuca. lettuce. Ca CC.xxxviii.  
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lettuce is cold & moist immoderately and the seed is colder than the herb, but the auctors tell not in what excess it is. This herb is good to eat and the seed for medicines. lettuce is reputed of auctors the most temperate herb that is/ and that breedeth best blood and most causeth abundance of milk. It is a convenable meat for choleric persons if they eat it sudden or otherwise. It is good in fever either raw or sudden. If it be sudden in vinegar and saffron put thereto & eaten it unstoppeth the conduits of the liver and the milt.  

¶ To cause sleep. A  
¶ To cause sleep/ bruise the seed small with woman's milk and white of an egg and lay it to the temples. ¶ The powder also of the sede taken with milk caused a body to sleep/ and for them that have the fever do the same.   

¶ For hot apostumes. B  
¶ Against hot apostumes at the beginning. Confycte the seed with oil of Roses and laid to the sores.    

¶ De Lactuca siluestri. Wild lettuce. Ca CC.xxxix.   depiction of plant 
LEectuca siluestris is wild lettuce and is moche like the tame in figure of leaves/ but yet the stalks or twigs of wild lettuce is longer and sklendrer and sharper/ and be not so green as the tame because they have less of moisture. And that appeareth in that the wild lettuce is bitter and it is more rauke of humours than the tame/ and therefore it is not so cold.  
¶ Dyascorides saith that a dram of the milk of wild lettuce meddled with juice of the tame and vinegar bringeth out raw humours.  

¶ To cause sleep. A  
¶ The milk thereof alone causeth sleep/ some say that they have virtue to cause flowers in women to flow. If they be staunched by their bitterness. And though that the tame be cold and moist/ nevertheless it is not exceeding. For if the qualities had mastery over all/ it should have no nature no propriety to die as it hath. But by the coldness that is attribued to it that it is good in medicine/ and in itself by lasting long time/ than it is not good for meat. And ancient men compared it to the water of a standing lake or pond/ that which water is hotter than water of running rivers because of the stone that shineth on them/ and gooth to the bottom and causeth the mud to meddle with the water. Because lettuce is cold and moist moderately it is the best of all herbs/ and engendereth good blood and in great quantity and if it be eaten unwashed it is better. For water increaseth the cold and moisture thereof. lettuce is of good digestion and provoketh urine/ and ceaseth the pain of the stomach/ of the heed/ and the cough caused of choleric humours/ and cooleth the opilation of the blood. It causeth sleep & rest if it be laid to the temples for all the said diseases. Nevertheless to eat it is more profitable sudden than raw. But to increase milk in the breasts and seed of man/ it is best at the beginning or it have moche milk in it. For when it hardeneth and hath plenty of milk/ the moistness lesseth/ and waxeth bitter and of less nourishing and getteth aperative virtue/ & than engendereth naughty blood & noyeth them that continually useth them. It causeth dimness of the eyen and wasteth/ and corrupteth the natural sede/ that causeth sight/ and is cause to mortify and slay the spirits that be the cause of the propryte of sight and stauncheth the natural heat and thyckeneth the sede of nature. And therefore it is a good remedy for them that often make pollution.   

¶ For hot apostumes. B  
¶ A plaster made of all this herb rubbed and laid to hot apostumes/ ceaseth the heat.    

¶ De lupinis. Ca Cc.xl  
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Lvpyns' been grains so called/ and be in two manners/ for there be bitter lupyns principally most convenable in medicines. Also there be lupyns that by long being in water become sweet Lupyns have diuretic virtue/ and unstoppeth the reins and the bladder/ & causeth to piss well.  

¶ For worms. A  
¶ For worms in the womb. Take meal of bitter lupyns and confyct them with honey and so use it. ¶ For the same take breed made of the meal of lupyns knoden with juice of wormwood/ and lay it to the navel/ and if a little aloen be put thereto it will be better. The same confection without aloen unstoppeth the conduits of the liver & milt. It is also good against dropsy. The meal of lupyns meddled with juice of the herb persicaria/ that is ars smert or culrage/ and put in to the ears sleeth the worms. This meal confyct with honey ripeth cold apostumes and breaketh them Isaac saith that lupyns be hot and dry in the second degree/ if this meal be drunken with rue and pepper it is good for them that have disease in the milt.   

¶ For blaynes'. B  
¶ Water the lupyns be sudden in healeth pimples pushes or blains if they be washed therein. Lupyns that be made sweet in water make course nourysshinge and be hard to digest and engender gross humours. Some say if meal of lupyns be laid on a heiry place it causeth the hear to fall/ & keepeth that none grow.    

¶ De lauro. Laurel or bays. Ca CC.xli  
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Laurel is hot and dry/ the fruit and the leaves be good in medicines But the leaves have greatest virtue to comfort by cause of they good odour. But the fruit have more virtue to divide to spread and to consume humours. If the leaves be gathered and put in a dry place without smoke they may be kept good a year/ but the fruit may be kept two years. A little bayne that bay leaves is sudden in is good to cleanse the matryce/ and helpeth to conceive if the letting come of cold.  

¶ For colic passion. A  
¶ For colic passion a bathe made of bay leaves sudden is good.   

¶ For the pose. B  
¶ Against cold pose of the heed/ seethe bay leaves in water and let the patient receive the smoke at his mouth/ and with the same water wash the temples and the forehead. For the same put the powder of bay berries in a bag/ and when it warmed lay the bag with powder heat upon the heed.   

¶ For ill colour in the face. C  
¶ Against the evil colour of the face called pannus/ and against a manner of reed things that come in young folks faces/ and specially to them that be sanguine. Take new bay berries/ and put out the husks and make fine powder and put it in honey and anoint or bathe the face.   

For the face. D  
¶ For evil colour that come to women after their childing. Confyct the said powder with some gall/ and if the gall be hard/ temper it with honey/ and with the said honey temper the powder afore said Of bay berries is made an oil that is good for pain of the stomach caused of cold & against the ache of the haunches/ and the oil of bays is made in this manner. Stamp bay berries and seethe them long in common oil/ and that that cometh out when they be pressed is oil of bays. And when ye find leaves of laurel in recepts. It is meant the leaves with the berries.    

¶ De Lentisco. Ca CC. xli●  
LEntisce is a little tree that is hot and dry but more dry than hot When lentils is found in recepts it is to wite the leaves/ and sometime all the tree is put. It hath virtue to restrain/ to resoudre/ and join wounds.  

¶ For menstrue. A  
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¶ Against flowing of menstrue excess/ and against bloody flux of the womb/ and against vomit caused of weakness of virtue retentive/ or by great sharpness of humours. seethe the leaves of this tree in wine and lay them to the neither parts of the belly/ and on the reins in manner of a plaster. But if the flux be caused of the upper bowels lay it to the stomach/ and to staunch vomit lay it to the fork of the breast.   

¶ For the yard. A  
¶ For hurting of the yard. Make powder of the leaves of this tree upon a tile/ and lay upon it. This powder draweth out the filth/ and closeth and fasteneth wounds. But it ought not to be used but if there be filthy matter.   

¶ For blisters in the mouth. B  
¶ Against blystres in the mouth & swelling of the lips. seethe the leaves of this tree in vinegar/ and with the same make a gargarism often times▪    

¶ De lentibus. Ca CC.xliii▪  
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lentils be cold sedes and dry/ & be better for usage of medicine than for to eat and have virtue to staunch.  

¶ For bloody flux. A  
¶ For bloody flux of the womb. seethe lentylles in water till they become black/ & give them to the patient fasting. Isaac saith that they be cold in the first degree & dry in the second. And who that will search further of their nature shall find that they be composed of two contrary virtues One in the rind/ and the other in the pith For the rind hath a sharpness whereby it looseth the belly/ and the pith is cold and dry and closeth and comforteth the stomach and the bowels.   

¶ For flux. B  
¶ And against flux of the womb. seethe lentils in warer with their rinds/ and when the said water is strained/ put thereto a little salt and oil. This water is good to lose/ if the first water be taken away and seethe them in another water they will take the virtue to lose.   

¶ For choleric flux. C  
¶ And moreover if the rinds be taken away and seethe them in two waters they will be better to digest/ and to restrain choleric flux of the womb. Howbeit generally in what manner so ever they be dressed they make gross or course nourishing and be hard to digest and engender me/ lancolyke blood. But yet they be eaten with the rinds they fill the brain full of melancolyk smoke wherbi they be cause moche pain in the heed/ and cause many false & fearful dreams/ and fill the stomach and bowels with wind/ and closeth them & anoyeth them more than any other grain And in like wise they grieve the lungs/ the midriff/ and the brain/ and specially the eyen/ for they dry the natural moistness of them/ and be evil and unnatural By their great drieth they restrain the course of the womb and of flewmes because they thick the humours so that they may not pass through the veins. Also lentils sudden with their rinds or husks be contrary to them that be of dry complexion/ for they engender in them sicknesses caused of melancolike humours as the black morfewe/ tetters/ canker/ or lepre called leonine or elefume. But nevertheless they may profit to them that be of moist complection/ and therefore if they be eaten with out their husks they be good for them that have the dropsy/ but they be noisome with their husks because they breed winds & cause the womb to swell. Lentylles that be greatest be best in medicines/ to comfort the virtue retentive and to warm the stomach/ and to slake and put out the heat of course humours that causeth flux of the womb. But who that will use them to comfort the virtue retentive/ or to eschew flux of the womb caused by sharpness of choleric humours/ must take away the husks and seethe them in water/ and cast away the first water and seethe them in an other water/ and when they be sudden put threto good vinegar/ plantain/ and the leaves and seed of quynces'/ and of meddlers and other like things. But for to comfort and warm the stomach/ instead of vinegar take good strong wine & for slack the belly seethe them with a rache/ betes/ or gourds or other things that be laxative Also lentils taken in meats as with powdered beef been of evil nourishing & evil meat. For the dry flesh that is cour● of his nature/ when it is mixed with lentils doubleth the evil of it/ and is cause to enflambe and burn/ and to breed melancolic humours. And therefore they be ill in this manner/ specially with the husks But who so will take the vice for them seethe them in two waters/ and in the second meddled vinegar with mint/ orygan/ common/ oil of almonds or of lisanie. Dyascorydes saith that a plaster made of melylot/ and celendyne/ with oil of roses and lentils/ wasteth the hot apostumes of the eye.   

¶ For pimples in the face. D  
¶ Also if the be meddled with pomegarner like a plaster it healeth the big pimples or pushes in the face/ and they be goo● for cold chipping of the feet.   

¶ For crudded milk in the breasts. E  
¶ Also if they be meddled with water of the see they be good for milk that is crudded in women's breasts.    

¶ De laureola. Rybbwort. Ca CC.xliiii  
LAureole is an herb that h●●h livers names. It is called m●sseron laurel terrestre/ mustilage/ usilien/ and ●lipiados/ after divers countries/ laureole  depiction of plant beareth fruit or seed that may be kept two. years in strength. Laureole hath chief virtue to purge phlegm and collar/ & may be used of seek and hole/ and to them that be likely to fall seek/ so that they that will use it have no strong fever/ who that will purge phlegm may sharpen or strength the medycyn called bennet or gerologodium with laureole. But to purge choleric humours may be sharpened or strengthened the medicine called oximell/ or tryfera sarasenyca & at most put not but .v. drams & mix mastic/ or gomme called bedelium/ or gum arabic. If the sharpness be away it purgeth above and beneath. Small powder of the seed sudden in oil and the neither part of the belly rubbed and anointed therewith is good against strangury/ and dyssury/ and in like wise anoint the reins of them that been costyfe caused of cold/ and glemy humours. Or make a suppository or tent of cotton wete in the said oil and put in the fundament.  

¶ For the hearing. A  
¶ For then that hear not well. Put in their ears and if there be any rotten humours it will dry them.   

¶ For course humours. B  
¶ If there be any course humours in the outward parties make an ointment in this manner. Stamp laureole well and put it in common oil or in any other hot oil ten or xu days/ and put what wine ye will and seethe it till the wine be all wasted/ & than strain it and anoint the grievous places. ¶ This oil is called catholycon.    

¶ De levistico. Lovage. Ca CC.xlv.  
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LOuage is an herb that is hot & dry in the third degree. The seed thereof is called levysticus as the herb is. And it is called kefni. If ye find leuisti●on or lovage in recepts▪ It is the seed & not the herb nor the rote. It may be kept iiii. years/ and hath power to provoke and unstop the conduits of urine/ & is diuretic/ and hath virtue to soften & delay course humours.  

¶ For the liver. A  
¶ Water that it is sudden in is good against opilation of the liver and milt.   

¶ For the stomach. B  
¶ For pain of the stomach or bowels caused of wind/ make powder thereof & take it with powder of cinnamon use it.    


¶ De lolio. Cokyll.  
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LOlium is cockle. It is hot & dry in the third degree/ and groweth omonge wheet. It hath virtue to depart humours/ and therefore it is good for them that be gouty/ and for them that have the dropsy or jaundice caused of opilation of the liver/ milt/ or bowels.   

¶ For worms in the womb. A  
¶ Water that it is sudden in fleeth all manner worms of the womb/ smoke made of cockle driveth venomous beasts out of the house. It causeth ache in the heed & noyeth the stomach/ as Macer saith.   

¶ For the canker. B  
¶ The powder of the sedes meddled with rapes/ and a little salt beaten all together is good for the canker laid thereto. Also it is good for knots & sores that cometh in leper if quicksilver be put thereto. If it be sudden in wine and laid on apostumes it breaketh them & spreadeth kernels & softeneth all hardness where so ever it be.   

¶ For gouts. C  
¶ Also against all gout scyatyke or pain in the joints. Make a plaster of this herb with frankincense and saffron & lay to it. Also women make smoke thereof to be the sooner delivered.    

¶ De lupulo. Hops.  
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LVpulus is an herb that groweth on hedges and tampeth in manner of an herb called bryony or white urn and is called hops/ the leaves thereof be like nettles/ & hath sharp savour & tart. And they be put in a drink called double bear/ hops purgeth reed & adust choleric humours and be good for disease of the liver & spreadeth & wasteth apostumes & looseth the womb. And healeth the dropsy/ the juice of hops raw is more laxative than sudden but it stoppeth less/ who so meddled the juice of the herb with the juice of morel is good for apostumes in the liver and milt/ and for jaundice/ and keepeth the womb moist/ and wasteth the heat of the body.  

¶ For the milt. A  
¶ To take away pain of the milt/ lay a plaster thereon with water and vinegar The juice of this herb droppeth in the ears voideth all filth. And put in the nostrils with oil of roses healeth the soreness marvelously.    

¶ De Lapide magnetis. Ca CC.xlvi.  
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LApis magnetis is the adamant stone that draweth iron. It is hot & dry in the third degree/ and hath might to draw iron as Arystotle saith. And is found in the brims of the occyan see. And there be hills of it/ and these hills draw the ships that have nails of iron to them/ & break the ships by drawing of the nails out. This stone is principally good for them that be wounded/ in this manner.  

¶ For wounds. A  
¶ Take the powder of magnet confycte with the apostolycon plaster/ and form a tent and put it in the wound/ and it will draw out the iron/ and drink the powder thereof or take it with meat. And specially it ought to be taken with the juice of confrey. ¶ The powder therewith juice of fennel in quantity of two drams is good against dropsey/ and disease of the milt and against falling of the here/ and it with draweth phlegm & melancolic humours That is to be chosen that draweth the greatest piece of iron/ and that that draweth not is nought. It is otherwise called calaminta.    

¶ De Lapide agapide. Ca CC.xlvii▪  
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LApis agapis is the stone of Ind that is like the genitory of a cock and is sperkled within and without/ and is hard & clear as glass. Against letting of the urine/ and to break the stone in the bladder it is good.  

¶ To break the stone. A  
¶ If powder be made thus/ take very fine powder of this stone agapide in certain quantity and put there to sedes of melons cytrulles/ cowcomets/ and gowdes cleanseth fro the rinds/ & the half less of saxifrage/ grommel/ fenel sede & the fourth part of sugar/ and in the morning take a spoonful of this powder with white wine warm. This powder is profitable for them that have colic passion and stone in the reins.    

¶ De Lapide lyncis Ca CC.xlviii.  
LApis lincis is made of the urine of the he wolf/ that which urine thycketh together in manner of a stone/ & is found on mountains. It is hot & dry of complexion/ and is good for diseases in the conduits of the urine as the stone agapide. It wasteth & breaketh the stone in the reins.   

¶ De lapide armenyco. Ca CC: xlix  
LApis armenicus is the stone of armeny. It is spoken enough of in the chapter of Azure afore.   

¶ De lapide emathyte. Ca Cc.l  
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LApis emathytes is a little stone that hath virtue to staunch blood. As is aforesaid in litera. E. Ca Clxi   

¶ De lapide lychodemonis. Ca Cc.li  
LApis demonis or lychodemonis is a stone that draweth a straw as the amber doth if it be rub. It is good for the diseases of the longs & cleanseth it of all course humours of phlegm/ and helpeth lethargy if the smoke be taken at the nose.  

¶ For gravel. A  
¶ Also the powder thereof causeth to piss/ and cleanseth the gravel if it be taken with white wine.    

¶ De lapide spongy. C. Cc.lii  
LApis spongy is a stone that is found in the sponges of the see. It hath virtue to unstop the conduits of urine & is diuretic.   

¶ De pede leonis. Pedelion. Ca CC.liii  
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LEntopedon Is an herb called pedelion or lions foot & hath divers names/ as oculis consulus/ & pes leonis It groweth in plain fields by dyches sides   

¶ De lactuca agresti. Wild lettuce. Ca CC.liiii.  
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Wild lettuce hath divers names/ which I leave/ & groweth in sandy places.  

¶ For the eyen A  
¶ For dimness of the eyen meddle the juice of this herb with wine or honey with gall of an Austour or other foul of pray/ and put it all meddled in a glass/ and put it in the eyes three time in a day or more. It is a sovereign medicine. And because this herb is good for to clear the sight/ some say that the eagle eateth this herb when he will flee high.    

¶ De semine lini. linseed: Ca CC.lvi.  
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LInosa/ line sede is hot and moist It hath virtue to ripe/ to spread humours/ to soften/ to lose/ and to breed gleymynesse:  

¶ To ripe apostumes. A  
¶ To ripe and break the apostumes that be outward. Make a plaster of meal/ of line sede/ of the mallow rote/ and of the lily rote sudden in water and porks grese put to them & laid to the sore. Isaac saith that line sede is hot in the first degree/ & moist in the mids of the same. It nourished little/ and is hard and strong to digest/ and causeth swelling/ & be noisome to the stomach. When they be roysted they have virtue diuretic/ & aperative If they be taken with honey they be good against cough caused of cold/ and cleanseth the breast of phlegm there gathered.   

¶ For costiveness B  
¶ If they be eaten with honey & pepper they increase lechery. ¶ If they be sudden in water/ and oil of roses/ put in the same and given in clystre they be good against costiveness/ and pain of the belly caused of sharpness of humours.  
¶ If a woman have aposteme in the matryce or the orifice/ bathe her in water that it is sudden in/ & it will spread the aposteme and ripe it.    

¶ De Lignaria. Ca CC.lvii  
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LIgnaria is an herb like line or flux. But it hath a yelove flower & is whytysshe within & hath wider leaves than line. It all together like esula/ but it hath no milk as esula. It is chiefly good against letting of the conduits of the liver that cometh of cold/ or of cold humours/ and for the same seethe lignaria or saint Iohis wort in water/ and let the patient drink it that hath jaundice/ and it will recover his colour/ if he have none excess/ but it is better sudden in wine.  

¶ For the stomach. A  
¶ The wine that lignaria is sudden in is good for pain of the stomach and hardness of the milt.    

¶ De lentycula aque. Grenes/ or duck meat. Ca CC.lviii.  
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lentils of the water been called frogs foot. It is a little round weed that groweth swiming on the water in ponds/ and still waters.  

¶ For canker. A  
¶ It hath virtue against canker if it be stamped the juice and all meddled with porks grese and laid plasterwise on the canker it sleeth and healeth it.    

¶ De cynoglossa. Hondestonge. Ca CC.lix  
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LIngua canis is an herb called cinoglossa It hath hot virtue in the second degree/ and moist in the first.  

¶ For biting of venomous beasts. A  
¶ For biting of a venomous be'st the juice of it profiteth moche.   

¶ For the eyen. B  
¶ Against redness/ swelling/ and dimness of the eyes/ put the juice in the eyen/ & the herb stamped on them.   

¶ To ripe apostumes. C  
¶ To ripe or break an aposteme. This herb sudden and meddled with swine's grese breaketh and purgeth it.   

¶ To draw out thorns. D  
¶ If it be bruiseth and laid on the p●ykkynge of a thorn it will draw it out.   

¶ For fistula. E  
¶ For fistule/ this herb laid plaster wise thereon wydeth the hole & healeth it.   

¶ For shaking of the heed. F  
¶ This herb eaten is good for shaking of the heed/ and maketh the throat and the breathe smooth and sowple.   

¶ For the flux G  
¶ This herb is good for flux of the womb if the feet be washed in the water that it is sudden in.    

¶ De lingua hircina. Buckesshorne Ca Cc.lx  
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LIngua hircina is an herb the hath leaves like langdebefe/ but it is little & of a finger length/ & hath a brown flower/ or of violet colour.  

¶ For the stomach. A  
¶ It cleanseth the stomach and refraineth the great heat/ and healeth brenning of fire if it be sudden and laid thereto.    

¶ De gommi lacca. Ca CC.lxi.  
LAcca is a gum hot and dry in the second degree It is the gum of a tree that groweth beyond the see and it unstoppeth the opilation of the liver/ and comforteth it.  

¶ For jaundice.  
¶ It is good against jaundice and dropsy.  depiction of plant But it must be discreetly taken if it be washed it is better/ and therefore it is had in electuary called dyalthea/ ordained for those diseases.    

¶ Lanceolata. Long plantain. Ca CC.lxii.  
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LAnceolata is called little plantain It is good for biting of venomous beasts/ the juice drunken and the herb laid on the sore.  

¶ To close wounds. A  
¶ To rejoin and close wounds. Make ointment of the juice thereof with porks grese/ sheeps tallow/ terbentyne/ frankincense and wax all molten together.    

¶ De lactuca leporina. Hare's lettuce. Ca CC.lxiii  
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Hare's lettuce hath leaves like cicore and groweth in sandy places and spreadeth on the ground/ and in the mids thereof springeth a flower.  

¶ For venom. A  
¶ This herb taken and drunken is good against biting of venomous beasts/ & for them that have taken any venomous thing.  
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¶ De lapaceola. little burr or clyver. Ca CC.lxiiii.  
Lapaceola is the less burr/ and it beareth no flowers but it beareth a seed that cleaveth lightly as the great burr called bardane. It groweth in moist places and dyches. It stauncheth the womb if the feet be bathed long therein.  

¶ For gravel and stone. A  
¶ It is also good against gravel/ the water stilled is good to break the stone in the bladder.    

¶ De limacis rubeis. Reed snails. Ca CC.lxv.  
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LImace or reed snail/ is a slimy kind of vermyn of the earth so called because it is of slime/ or because it breed and abideth in slimy places It is cold and moist of complexion/ and is good in use of medicines.  

¶ For brustennesse. A  
¶ For all brustennesse in old folk or young whither it be old or new. Take ix reed snails between two tiles of clay/ so that they creep nor slide away/ and bake them so in the hot emers/ or in an oven till they be powder Than take the powder of one of the snails/ and put in white wine & let the patient drink it in the morning at his rising/ and fast two hours after/ and drink these ix snails in xviii days that is to wite every other day. And if the sickness be so old that it will not heal in xviii. days/ begin again/ & drink other ix. snails as it is said & he shall be hole. It is a thing proved. Probatumest.    
¶ Thus endeth the names of herbs beginning with. L.   

¶ And here beginneth the name's beginning with. M.  

¶ De Mirto. Ca CC.lxvi.  
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MIrte is a little tree so called/ that which tree beareth a fruit that is named myrtles. The which fruit is convenable for medicines and than the leaves/ and flowers Myrte is cold in the first degree/ & moist in the second/ and the newer that the leaves and flowers be the better they are. The fruit ought to be gathered when they be ripe/ and may be kept two years.  

¶ For vomit and divers fluxes. A  
¶ Against vomit and flux of the womb and against exceeding flux of menstrue. Eat the fruit called Myrtylles or make syrup with the juice of them and sugar or with honey competently for brenning/ for that syrup made with honey is not so good as it that is made with sugar/ but it keepeth longer. Also plasters may be made of the new fruit/ or if they be dry make powder of them and confict it with white of an egg/ and laid the said plaster to the mouth of the stomach right against the bought of the breast.   

¶ To stance flux. B  
¶ And to stance flux of the womb lay it to the reins beneath the belly/ and to the navel/ and to stance menstrue lay it to the reins/ and under the belly. Also seethe the leaves of this herb in rain water/ & bathe the lower parties therein. If ye will staunch the flux of the womb or menstrue with the same water bathe the temples/ the foreheed and the feet.   

¶ For the pose. C  
¶ For pose caused of heat. receive the fume at the mouth/ and bathe the temples & the forehead. And if they be laid to the reins in fever ague they appease the pain of the sharpness and heat thereof.   

¶ For stench of the mouth. D  
¶ If powder of the fruit and leaves be taken in the morning it put away stench of the mouth that cometh of the stomach    

¶ De manna. Ca CC.lxvii.  
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MAnna is hot and moist moderately. It is a dew that falleth on herbs (that be diuretic) in a party of grease. And by day this dew cleaveth about the herbs & is gathered as honey If it be pure it is of great efficace and virtue. But because there is but little it is contrefayt. Some put raw honey thereto as it cometh fro the hive. Other contrefayt it without honey. For with juice of liquorice & wax they make a hard thing that is like to manna. But there is difference/ for manna is whytysshe/ & hath a hollowness like a honey comb/ and is purely sweet/ & that which is contrefayt with liquorice hath a savour somdele abominable and therefore it is good in fever agues caused of choleric humours/ & aught to be dressed as cassia fistula. It may not be sudden with medicines/ but when it is put in confections it ought to be allayed in warm water/ and if it be put in decoction it will noye more than profit. And therefore because there found none pure without meddling it is perilous to seethe it in fever.   

¶ De Melliloto. Ca CC.lxviii  
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melilot is an herb so named/ and the sede is called mellylot also. It is hot and dry in the first degree & it softeneth the womb/ and ripeth it more than malowes/ and the rote more. If it be meddled with grese & laid hot to apostumes it ripeth them It beareth a flower like half a circle and therefore it is called kings crown. Ye must take the seed & the husks for they be so together that they can not be departed It hath virtue to comfort for the good odour that it hath/ and hath virtue aperaty●e & dyurytike by the swiftness of the substance  

¶ For digestion. A  
¶ The wine that it is sudden in comforteth greatly digestion/ and putteth winds out of the womb/ and openeth the conduits of the reins/ of the liver/ and of the bladder. The sedes put in potages or meats giveth them good savour.    

¶ De malua. Malowes. Ca CC.lxxix.  
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mallow is an herb that is cold and moist in the first degree/ & is in two manners that is to say the tame that groweth in all places and is most cold and most moist/ and hath more swyfter substance than the other. The other is the wild mallow called bysmalua/ and groweth higher with larger leaves and is like a little tree and is less cold and moist/ & hath a more gluey substance.  

¶ For hot apostumes. A  
¶ Against hot apostumes/ at the beginning bruise malowes and lay to them.   

¶ To ripe apostumes. B  
¶ To ripe apostumes/ bruise malowes with fresh porks grese and heat it on a tile & lay it to hot.   

¶ For the milt and liver. C  
¶ The same is good for hardness of the milt and liver.   

¶ To cause sleep. D  
¶  made and the feet washed therein causeth sleep in fever agues.   

¶ To lose the womb. E  
¶ Malawes sudden and pottage made of them looseth the womb. ¶ To cause retained menstrue to slew/ take a mallow rote as big as a finger and scrape it a little without and anoint it with honey and cast powder of squamony thereon/ and put it in the orifice It is an experiment approved.    

¶ De maluavisco. Wild malowes. Ca CC.lxx.  
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Miluaviscus is the wild mallow. It is hot and moist in the second degree. It laxeth the womb/ and ripeth it more than the other malowes/ and the roots and leaves more.  

¶ For apostumes. A  
¶ If it be bruised with grese & laid upon apostumes it ripeth them/ and looseth/ & softeneth all hard things. Otherwise seethe this herb in water till the water be all most as wasted/ & upon it will fleet a slymynesse that ripeth apostumes if it be laid to them. And a wholesome ointment may be made of it for the same if it be meddled with oil and wax.   

¶ For dryness. B  
¶ The water that the sedes of the wild mallow is sudden in is good for them that have the fever ethyke/ & against dryness.    

¶ De malua ortulana. hollyhock. Ca CC.lxxi.  
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MAlua ortensis garden malowes It is a great mallow in manner of a tree with great leaves.  

¶ For the bladder. A  
¶ For pain of the bladder/ and for them that piss blood/ seethe the rote of this mallow with a. lin. of the leaves sudden in water/ & strained/ and drunken three days when the patient is a thirst/ & it will cease the pain   

¶ For the sinews. B  
¶ For the pain of the sinews/ seethe this herb with the rote and put old grese thereto and lay to the place plasterwise.   

¶ For pain of the womb. C  
¶ Against passion of the womb be it ylyake or colyke/ & against pain in the side lay the leaves of this herb hot upon the painful places.   

¶ To ripe apostumes D  
¶ To ripe apostumes/ seethe the leaves and the roots/ & lay them plasterwise to them. This herb is good for pain of the bladder if it be sudden & eaten as Diascorides saith   

¶ For venom. E  
¶ Against all venom take these leaves and wylowe leaves & bethe them together & eat them & it will put out all venom as Diascorides & Macer saith.   

¶ For teeth ache. F  
¶ For pain of the teeth hold the tote of holyhoke upon the sore teeth.   

¶ For deed children. G  
¶ To put the deed child out of the mode● make a plaster of holyhokes with a little salt/ & goose grese & lay it to the matryce with a bend.   

¶ For the eyen. H  
¶ The juice of this herb often put in to the eyes fretteth the flesh that is superflue.   

¶ For stinging of honey bees. I  
¶ To cause that honey bees shall not grieve thee/ make an ointment of hockes & oil olive & anoint the therewith/ and the same will suage the pain of their stinging.   

¶ For scurf. K  
¶ Against scursse of the heed/ wash the heed with water that leaves of holyhokes is sudden in & than bethe them and lay them to the heed.   

¶ For brenning. L  
¶ For all brenning either with fire or other hot humour seethe hocke leaves in oil olive & with the oil anoint the place & lay the leaves upon it.   

¶ For the fundament. M  
¶ Against pain of the fundament or of the matryce/ and of the bowels/ seethe the ●●nes in water and make a stew of the same water/ or wash the often therewith.    

¶ De Mastice. Ca CC.lxxii.  
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mastic is hot and dry in the second degree. It is the gum of a little tree that is like the tree called lentiste/ and groweth in a party of Grece. And in that country the people make scotches or clyftes in the bark of this tree/ and make the ground clean about it/ and lie clothes or covering made of rushes because the liquor that woseth out shall not fall on the earth. mastic that is clear and white is to be chosen/ and that that is dim and meddled with earth is to be refused. mastic hath virtue to restrain/ to comfort/ to rejoin and sowdre.  

¶ For humours that come fro the heed. A  
¶ For the humours that descend fro the heed in to the eyen and teeth/ and against pain of the temples caused of fumes that mounteth fro the stomach to the heed confycte the powder of mastic with white wine and white of an egg/ & if ye will put powder of olybane thereto and lay this plasterwise to the temples. A plaster made of mastic & laudane laid upon wagging teeth rejoineth and fasteneth them and abateth swollen gums and wasteth the superflue and course humours. mastic oftentimes chewed whyteth/ and stedyeth the teeth. It wasteth also the superflue humours that descend to the dig of the tongue/ and purgeth the humours of the brain/ and causeth to spette moche.   

¶ To stance vomit B  
¶ If mastic be hot or melted in a vessel and driven upon a cloth or leather/ & laid to the bought of the breast it stauncheth vomit caused of humour or of feebleness of virtue retentive. And the same comforteth digestion in them that be weyked by sickness/ and lay it to the heart when the hear is taken away/ and if it will not cleave lay a warm tile thereto and a cloth between and when it cleweth take the tile away. The water that mastic is sudden in drunken lukewarm comforteth digestion/ & stayeth the stomach that is lose/ and if fennel seed be put thereto it wasteth the winds thereof. ¶ A plaster made of mastic bull armenyke and white of an egg with vinegar/ and laid to the bowght of the breast stauncheth vomit caused of choleric humour. Rain water that mastic is sudden in doth the same/ and also it restraineth the flux of the womb caused of sharpness of medycins Rain water or rose water that it is sudden in with four or .v. clowes and drunken warm is good for the same. And know ye that mastic ought not to be much sudden/ for losing of his strength in seething/ and the water that it is sudden in must be taken milk warm/ & is better so than hot as Constantyne saith.    

¶ De menta mints. Ca CC.lxxiii.  
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Mint is hot and dry in the second degree. There be three manners of it. One is tame/ and is properly called gardyne mint/ and it chauffeth or heateth meanly/ and comforteth. There is an other mint and it is wild and is called mentastre or horsmynte/ and it heateth more strongly. There is yet an other mint/ and it is called mint roman/ or sarazyns' mint/ and it is most aperative diuretic/ and unstopping than the other because it is more bitter. The tame mint is best in medicines/ & is of right great virtue green and dry. It ought to be dried in the shade/ and may be kept good one year. It hath virtue to depart and waste humours/ by the qualities and to comfort by the good odour and savour.  

¶ For stench of the mouth. A  
¶ For stench of the mouth caused of rottenness of the gums and teeth/ wash the mouth with water that garden mints is sudden in/ and rub the teeth with the mints/ or the powder thereof.   

¶ For the appetite. B  
¶ To renew the appetite that is lost caused of cold humours in the mouth of the stomach/ make sauce of mint/ vinegar cynamome/ or pepper.   

¶ For vomit. C  
¶ Against vomit caused of weakness retentive or by cold. seethe mint in salt water/ or in vinegar/ and wete a sponge therein/ and lay it to the mouth of the stomach in the bought of the breast/ or lay the mint sudden thereto/ or let the patient eat mint.   

¶ For swooning. D  
¶ For swooning or weakness of the heart/ be it in fevers or other sickness/ or if it come of other cause. Stamp mints with vinegar/ and a little wine/ if the patient have no fever. And roast a shiver of breed till it be almost brent/ and put it therein till it be well steeped/ and than put of it in to his nose/ & rub his lips/ his tongue/ gums/ teeth/ and the temples/ and let him chaw it and suck the moistness thereof/ and swallow it.   

¶ For the matryce. E  
¶ To cleanse the matryce. seethe the tender crops of mint in wine and make a suppository.   

¶ For ylyake passion. F  
¶ For the ylyake passion. seethe mint in wine and lay it to the reins/ and neither part of the belly.   

¶ For crudded milk in the breasts. G  
¶ For crudded milk in the breasts/ seethe mint in wine and lay to them Also if any medicine be taken for venom it ought to be taken with juice of mint. For the mint hath some virtue to draw out venom. Or take the wine that mint is sudden in/ or with water of mints.    

¶ De menta romana. Wytmynt. Ca CC.lxxiiii.  
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mint roman or sarazyne is hot & dry in the second degree. The leaves be longer/ larger/ & sharper than the other mint/ and hath virtue to unstop the conduits of urine more than any other mint And that is seen in that it is more bitter/ hath a sharper savour.  

¶ For the liver. A  
¶ The juice of this herb only with honey/ or the wine that it is sudden in/ it is good to unstop the conduits of the milt and liver/ and way of urine/ if the letting come of cold or hot humour so that there be no fever   

¶ For worms in the womb. B  
¶ The juice of this mint drunken sleeth the worms of the womb/ and if it be dropped in the errs it killeth the worms there.   

¶ For apostumes. C  
¶ This herb sudden in wine and oil/ and laid to hard apostumes/ destroyeth spreadeth/ and wasteth them. It may be put instead of the tame.    

¶ De mentastro. Horsmynt. Ca CC.lxxv.  
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MEntastre is hot and dry in the second degree/ and is called wild mint  

¶ For cold cough. A  
¶ Against cold cough bethe dry figs with horsmynt in wine/ and use it.   

¶ For digestion. B  
¶ The wine that it is sudden in comforteth digestion. Bayne or hath made of the water that it is sudden in chauffeth the coldness of the matris.   

¶ For the heed or pose. C  
¶ If the powder of this mint be put in a bag/ & laid hot to the heed/ it is good against cold rheum of the heed/ and wasteth/ and healeth it.    

De margaritis sive perlis. pearls Ca CC.lxxvi.  
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MArgarites that is called pearls been cold & dry. They be small bright stones that be found in certain fishes. There be two manners. There be that are natural without artyfyce or craft & they be the best & when ye find pearls in recepts it is then that be natural pearls. Other there be that be no pearls and be stones that the apotycaryes put often in use. But nevertheless it may be that some that be no pearls/ be better than some pearls/ if they have any good proprieties. pearls that be bright and clear are to be chosen. They that be dim & white be nought. They have virtue to comfort/ and encreas the spirits of the heart. Some say that it is because they cleanse and purge the membres fro superfluities/ & stayeth and closeth the membres and comforteth them.  

¶ For weakness of the heart. A  
¶ Against feebleness of the heart & swooning caused of flux of the womb or medicine/ or of to much bleeding/ & against trembling of the heart that cometh in fever Take the powder of pearls with sugar of roses. The pearls that be pierced thorough by craft be neither better not worse. But the best be pierced by nature.    

¶ De Mommia. Mommye. Ca CC.lxxvii  
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MOmmye is hot and dry i● the third degree. Some say that it is cold because it hath virtue restrayntyfe. But it is not so. For many things that be hot and dry to staunch. Mommye is a manner of spices or confections that is found in the sepulchres or tombles of deed bodies that have be confyct with spices. And it is to wite that in old time men were wont to confyct the deed corpses and anoint them with balm and myrrh smelling sweet. And yet the paynims about babylon keep that custom/ for there is great quantity of balm. And this Mommye is specially found about the brain/ and about the matonge in the ridge bone. For the blood by reason of the balm draweth to the brain/ and thereabout is chafed. And like wise is the brain brent/ and parched/ and is the quantity of Mommye/ and so the blood is moved in the ridge of the back. That Mommye is to be chosen that is bright/ black/ stinking/ and stiff. And that that is white/ and draweth to a dim colour and that is not stinking nor stiff/ and that powdreth lightly is nought. It hath virtue to restrain or staunch.  

¶ For bleeding of the nose. A  
¶ The powder of Mommye only put in to the nose stauncheth the blood/ or make therewith a tent with juice of sanguynary and put it in to the nose. Also make a plaster of the powder with the gleyre of an egg/ and lay it to the brows and temples.   

¶ For spitting. of blood. B  
¶ For them that spette blood by reason of hurt or disease of the members of the bulk▪ Take pylles confyct with powder of monneye with a little mastic and confyct th● in water that gum Arabyke hath be molten or allayed in. And held these pylles in the mouth till they melt and depart/ & than swallow them. And if the blood come to the mouth because of the nutrytyfe membres as the stomach the liver and the milt/ eat this powder with a rear egg or drink it with juice of plantain.   

¶ For bloody flux of the womb. C  
¶ For bloody flux of the womb take this powder gum arabic and brent brass with rose water & juice of plantain. And it is principally good if the disease come of the upper bowels. And if the vice come of the neither bowels/ minister the said powder in clystre with water that barley is sudden in with tragacanth. Make also a plaster of mommye and of tan that is a powder made of oaken barks with vinegar and gleyre of an egg. If the cause be of the low bowels lay the plaster to the neither end of the belly/ and to the reins. And if it be of the high bowels lay it to the navel. ¶ To steynt the exceeding flux of the menstrue/ take athanasia and powdre of mommye in suposytory.   

¶ To join wounds. D  
¶ Powdre of mommye laid on wounds joineth and resoudreth them.    

¶ De Mandragora. Mandrake. Ca CC.lxxviii.  
MAndrake is cold and dry/ but the auctors determine not in what degree. There be two manners the male/ and the female/ & the female hath sharp leaves Some say that it is better for medicine than the male/ but we use of both.  
¶ Mandrake the male.  
¶ Mandrake the female.  
¶ Some say that the male hath figure or shape of a man. And the female of a woman/ but that is false. For nature never gave form or shape of mankind to an herb. But it is of trough that some hath shaped such figures by craft/ as we have sometime heard say of loboures in the fields. The rind of the rote of Mandrake is principally good for use in medicine. The fruit next. And thirdly the leaves. The rind of the rote of mandragora may be kept two years in virtue/ and so long it may be used in medicines. It hath might to keel/ to staunch/ and somewhat to mortify/ & to cause sleep.  

¶ To cause sleep A  
¶ To cause one to sleep in a fever ague confyct the rind of mandrake with woman's milk and white of an egg/ and lay it to the forehead and temples.   

¶ For heedache. B  
¶ For the pain of the heed caused of heat. Stamp the leaves and lay them on the temples/ and anoint the heed with oil that is made in this manner. Bruise the apples of this herb mandragoras/ and lay it a great while in oil/ and than seethe it a little/ & when it is strained it is called oil of mandrake. It is marvelous good to cause sleep/ and helpeth against pain of the heed if it be caused of heat anointed therewith about the temples and foreheed/ and also if the pulses be anointed therewith it cooleth marvelously the heat of fever ague.   

¶ For apostumes. C  
¶ Against apostumes the places anointed with this oil at the beginning putteth the matter out if the fruit or leaves of mandrake be bruised and laid thereto/ or at the least the powder of the leaves with the juice of some cold herb.   

¶ For the flux. D  
¶ For flux of the womb caused by sharpness of choleric humours/ anoint the womb and all the ridge bone with the oil of it/ and minister a clyster therewith also. This herb of some is called Antimon or Androporeos/ and the sede abbaloros.    

¶ De Meu. Ca CC.lxxix.  
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MEu is an herb the rote thereof also height meu. Some call it sistra/ that is dill but sistra is another herb. The rote of meu aught ch●fely to be put in medicines/ and may be kept two years/ and is hot and dry in the s●conde degree. It hath virtue to unstop the ways of the conduits of urine/ and is dyuretyks by the subtylnesse thereof/ and hath virtue to withdraw/ and waste humours by the complexion and quality. The wine or water that meu is sudden in is good against oppilation of the liver and the milt caused of cold. And also against straightness of urine called dyssury and strangury/ and is best in summer/ and to young folks give the water that it is sudden in. And in winter & to old folks give the wine. Powdre of meu taken in meats or drinks with fenel seed wasteth and putteth out the winds of the stomach/ and of the guts/ and comforteth digestion.  

¶ For costiveness. A  
¶ Against costiveness caused of cold seethe this herb in wine/ and let the patient sit therein in manner of a little bath/ and than lay the herb on the fundament. The powder thereof confect with honey and laid thereon is a convenable solve.    

¶ De citonijs. quinces. Ca CC.lxxx.  
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MAla citonia been quince apples. if they be gathered with a little of the stalk/ & hanged thereby they may be kept a year in a cold place or region and half a year in a warm. They have might to restrain and to comfort/ and be of more virtue green than dry.  

¶ For vomit. A  
¶ Against vomit and flux of the womb caused of heat and of retentive weakness Eat quince apples roasted or tawe. But if it be for vomit take them after meat   

¶ For flux of the womb. B  
¶ For flux of the womb. seethe quince apples in rain water and bruise them and lay them warm to the scare of the belly/ & to the reins. And if the flux is caused by the vice of the bowels beneath/ lay the playstecwyse about the navel. And if it be by vice of the bowels above/ lay it to the stomach in the fork of the breast and it will staunch it. Another manner is thus Bruise green quynces'/ and strain the juice/ & confyct it with their powder/ and put thereto a grain or fruit called Sumac. The powder of them eaten comforteth the stomach and provoketh it and stauncheth. Of these apples is an electuary made called dyacytonyten in this manner. seethe quinces in water and than take the outward parts that been black and unclean away and keep that which is of good and sweet smell and with the sedes or kernels and the substance thereof do in this wise. Take a colender or a pan with holes wide enough and therein let the said quinces be well handled till they be thin and so soft that they pass thorough/ & that that is hard bete again and pass it through the colender/ and put thereto honey of equal quantity/ and seethe it/ and when it is well sudden put thereto powdres of spices that belong to the receipt of dyacytonyten which is written in the book called Antidotary/ but when they be put in it must be alway stirred/ & than taken from the fire and be powered on a fair board and there to be made thin and sliced. And this diacitoniten is called dyacitoniten exiporium. Dyacitoniten comforteth digestion/ and is good for them that come out of sickness. The kernels in the quinces have virtue to moist/ to smooth and soften/ and therefore broth that they be sudden in is good for them that been dry as of ptysyke or ethyke/ and the said broth is convenable in syrups for them.   

¶ For the tongue. C  
¶ For roughness of the tongue/ put these sedes or kernels in a fine cloth wet in water and wash the tongue therewith/ & an herb called psilium or the seed thereof.    

¶ De granatis. Pomgarnades. Ca CC.lxxxi.  
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MAla garnata. Pomgarnades been apples so named some be sweet/ and be hot and moist temperately. Other be tart and sour/ and been cold/ and may be kept a year if they be hanged in the air Sweet pongarnades been most convenable in meats of medicines. They be most behovefully given to them that have choleric fevers/ for the moistness of them hath more might to destroy the sharpness of the heat than the heat hath to grow. sour pongarnades been better for medycyn than for meat. the juice of these sour garnades may be given in choleric fevers/ be they tercyan or ague by the self or with juice of the sweet. And it ought to be used in the morning with warm water.  

¶ To digest matter of fever. A  
¶ To digest the matter of the fever/ take syrup made of juice of the sour pomgarnades/ for this syrup look in the book called Anthidotary. The leaves of the tree that beareth this fruit is called balausteis as is aforesaid/ and the rind or bark of the apples been called psidie/ and aught to be gathered when the apples been ripe. These leaves and rinds may be kept two years. And have virtue to staunch   

¶ For vomit. B  
¶ For vomit caused of choleric humours and for the bloody flux/ the powder of them sudden in vinegar or a sponge wet therein & laid to the stomach/ for vomit. And for the flux lay the sponge to the reins and to the low part of the belly or share. And take this powder with a rear egg.   

¶ To staunch blood C  
¶ To staunch blood at the nose. Take the powder of the flowers and rinds alone or with juice of bursa pastoris. ¶ To staunch menstrual blood/ lay the powder to the place with juice of plantain    

¶ De macianis pomis. Wood crabs or wyldynges. Ca CC.lxxxij.  
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mAla maciana been wild apples and be cold and dry/ and have power to staunch. And therefore they be good against flux of the womb in manner as it is said of quinces and for the same diseases sweet apples have most virtue/ and breed wind. Those that be somewhat cold of savour been best to eat. And they that have fevers ought to eat them raw and rested after meat. But the roasted be best:  

¶ For digestion: A  
¶ For them that have had sickness lately and have ill digestion/ caused of cold in the stomach/ use them thus. Cleve them in two & take out the kyrnelles/ and the hard skins that they lie in/ & fill the holownisse with powdre of nutmegs/ clowes and cockle sede/ and sometime is only put powder of cinnamon/ ginger/ and pepper and so roasted in the fire/ and it will comfort greatly.    

¶ De Marrubium. Horehound: Ca CC.lxxxiij:  
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MArrubium is an herb called horehound. It is hot & dry in the third degree/ some call it prassyon. The leaves is better in medycyn than any part of the herb/ the rind next/ and the flowers/ and than the rote. The leaves may be kept good one year/ if they be hanged in shadow. It hath virtue to divide & spread humours/ and to soften and waste them. It hath diuretic virtue/ & to withdraw humours.  

¶ For the breathe A  
¶ For letting of the breathe called asma if it be caused of cold humour and slimy as phlegm. Take an electuary called dyaprassyon that hath most might of this herb. Or make electuary of the juice in one part thereof and the fifth part of scummed honey/ and seethe them together till they be thick/ and than put powder of dragagant thereto and lycoryce/ and use it/ and if there be no juice take powder of the leaves with scommed honey and liquorice.   

¶ For the cough. B  
¶ And for cough take the leaves thereof sudden with dry figs.   

¶ For the urine. C  
¶ For letting of the urine as dyssury or strangury/ give the patient the wine that it is sudden in. Also the herb sudden in wine and oil lay it to the share and reins. And for them that have colic of cold cause.   

¶ For hemorrhoids D  
¶ For hemorrhoids swollen & not running make a little bathe in salt water/ and in wine that this herb is sudden in/ and make a suppository of the powder confyct with honey/ or the powder or juice thereof sudden with oil of musk/ and cotton wet therein and put in to the fundament/ or upon it.   

¶ For worms in the womb. E  
¶ For worms in the belly/ take powder of the leaves sudden with honey   

¶ For worms in the ears. F  
¶ For worms in the ears drop the juice of it therein.   

¶ For the milt. G  
¶ For hardness of the milt/ the juice of the rind of the rote steped a fortnight in wine and oil/ and than sudden and strained and in the straining put thereto wax and oil/ and make an ointment for the same.    

¶ De Melle. honey. Ca CC.lxxxiiii.   two beehives 
MEl is honey and is hot in the first degree/ & dry in the second/ honey is made by artyfyce/ and craft of bees. The which bees draweth the thynnest part of the flowers/ and partly of the thickest & most gross/ and thereof maketh honey and wax/ and also they make a substance that is called the honey comb.  
The tame honey is that that is made in the house or hives that labourers ordaineth for the said bees to lodge and work in. honey is white in cold places/ & brown in warm places. And honey ought to be put in medicyns and may be kept. C. years There is an other that is called wild honey and is found in woods/ and is not so good as the other and is more bitter/ and therefore it is put in medicines to unstop the conduits of urine/ & is better therefore than the other. Also there is a honey called castanea because it is made of chestayne flowers that the bees sucketh/ and is bitter and diuretic as the other Honey hath virtue to consume/ to cleanse/ and keep things fro roting. And is put in medicines to delay and hide the bitterness of medicines/ and that the medicines go to the bottom of membres because of the sweetness thereof/ that is meddled with them. Powdre of medicines is meddled with honey to keep the virtue thereof.  

¶ For the stomach. A  
¶ Against cold humours in the stomach Take a drink called mulsa that is of honey and warm water.   

¶ For the heart. B  
¶ For weakness of the heart and swooning. Take the broth made of honey with some water that comforteth.   

¶ To cleanse the stomach. C  
¶ To cleanse dirt or filth in the stomach and to unbind the belly. Take nitre with honey and it cleanseth.   

¶ For evil colour in the face. D  
¶ For evil colour in the face called pannus that cometh to women after their chy●dynge. Confyct two or three dram of ●ytre with honey/ and let it lie the space of three days/ and therewith anoint the face And for the same honey with bulls gall is good.   

¶ For to unbind the belly. E  
¶ In a fever or other disease when the ho●y is bound/ a supposytory is made in th●●mtner. honey is sudden in a vessel till it wax black/ and powder of salt is put thereto/ and when they be meddled the honey is powered on a stone or an other eustrydge/ and than be anointed as a suppository ought to be/ and put it in the fundament/ and it will cause you to shit a pace.    

¶ De Musco. Musk. Ca CC.lxxxv  
MVske is hot and dry in the second degree. It is a moist thing that is found in certain apostumes in a manner  deer - or kid-like animal with long, backward-curving horns kind of beasts in Ind. These beasts be like kids & in their greynes is a certain hollowness/ in the which humours gather in manner of impostumes the which when they been ripe by the moving of the be'st the fall down with the skin the which hath white hairs/ and therein is the musk There be three manners of musk One is all black and is nought. Another is somewhat brown/ and is better than the first. The third is all brown with colour like spykanardy/ and is the best and hath a savour somewhat bitter/ and may stantly be countrefayted. If it be put in the mouth to assay the taste it filleth the brain with savour. Good musk ought not to be to stiff nor melt lightly in the mouth & ought not to be clear within. Musk may be kept long in a vessel of glass or other but the best is to put it in close lead. Nor it may not be put with sweet smelling things/ for than it loseth the smell. And if it chance so to do/ put it in a vessel unstopped and hang it in a prive/ and it will recover virtue and smell. It comforteth with good smell/ and wasted/ and spreadeth humours by complexion and quality thereof.  

¶ For the heart A  
¶ Against weakness of heart and swooning/ or feebleness of the body/ if it come from the brain or liver/ or pain of the stomach caused of cold. Take musk alone with wine or with diamargariton/ or with pliris areotycen which be at the appotycaries/ and take but two weight of two wheat corns at ones.   

¶ For the brain B  
¶ Against weakness of the brain smell to musk/ and default of the matryce and stopping thereof when it wringeth the heart and the upper limbs/ and causeth in manner to swoon/ take the fume of musk beneath.   

¶ For menstrue. C  
¶ To cause hard menstrue to run/ and to help to conceive if the cause be of cold minister musk beneath with a medycyn called tryfera. suppository with oil & cotton made of storax/ calamity/ amber/ and musk/ is good/ put in the orifice.   

¶ For stench of the mouth. D  
¶ For stench of the mouth chaw musk/ and it will do it away. When merchants will buy musk they stop their nostrils/ and than cause to open the musk/ and than they go a stone cast from it/ and unstop their noses/ and if they smell it so far of they buy it/ for it is good    

¶ De Mirabolanis. Ca CC.lxxxvi.  
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Mirabolanes' been of divers manners and be cold and dry. They that be yellow be cold and dry in the second degree. Mirabolans been the fruit of trees in Ind/ also of one shape/ but they have divers kinds and virtues. Of myrabolans been good kinds/ the citryne yellow cebules/ bellerykes/ emblikes/ and yndes Cytrines or yellow mirabolans that be big and heavy/ and have a gommosyte within been best and may be kept .v. years and the Cebules/ and belerykes aught to have the same condition/ and the cebules may be kept but .v. years/ but the bellerykes/ and emblykes may be kept divers years. auctors say that they purge choleric humours/ but some more and some less yellow or citrine mirabolans chiefly purge choleric humours and secondly flewmes. Cebules chiefly flewmes and secondly colere: The yndes chiefly melancolyke and secondly choleric The emblykes and the bellerykes purgeth phlegm and choleric humours. When mirabolans is found in compost medicines/ the husks only is to be weighed without the kyrnelles/ but when they must be confycte/ they must be well sudden and beaten & all weighed together/ and the kernels taken away/ and the husks of other mirabolans put thereto/ and it needeth not to take the kernels away/ for they be small & may easily be taken fro the husks. It ought to be known in what quantity they ought to be taken/ and how they must be dressed. For when mirabolans' citrynes is put in medicines at the most is two ounces and a half if they be put alone. Put mirabolans in powdre/ and step it in hot water not seething/ for if seethe it will take away all the gommy substance/ and the virtue laxative should be lost/ and when they have lain a night in the said water rubbed them with your hands/ and strain the water in the morning/ and minister it.  

¶ For fever ague. A  
¶ Against fever ague convenably taken in decoction it cauffeth not but purgeth & unbindeth competently. And is principally good against the bloody flux of the womb Mirabolans cytrynes been taken sometime with casia fistula/ and tamaryns to purify and cleanse the blood/ but the casia must first be delayed in warm water & strained/ and in that broth stepe the myrabolans all night/ and on the morrow strain them and give to the patient. An● ye ought to know that all colyces that mirabolans citrynes mixed with aught to be taken at morrow early & the decoction of the cebules may be taken at even/ & they that have cold stomachs ought to take the decoction of them with warm water/ for if it be taken with cold water it would parbreak up again This decoction ought be warmed in a vessel of silver or earth put in an other full of water to seethe & after that decoction of mirabolans' cytrins ye ought to use some syrup actuelly cold to drink with cold water/ or at the least cold water if it be summer/ & in winter warm. The other mirabolans may not be given in great quantity by themself as the cytrines for they be meddled with other laxatives. Powdre is made of their kernels to take away dimness of the web in the eye. Some put the same powder in rose water/ and let them dry two or three times/ and than put the powder alone in the eye with rose water. Of myrabolans' cebules is a syrup made in this wise. Take cassia fistula/ tamarinds/ and manna and soak them in water and strain them & in the colyce thereof put sugar/ and put therein mirabolans' cebules/ that swelleth/ and this syrup may be kept .v. years. If it be used it openeth the vain that is feebled by melancolic humour/ that is mounted in to the eyen/ and is good for them that be disposed to feebleness of heart/ if it be taken in the morning/ and than drink warm water that syrup thereof is put to/ and it looseth the belly.    

¶ De Mace. Maces. Ca CC.lxxxvij.  
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MAces is hot and dry in the second degree. Some say that they be flowers of the nutmigge/ which seemeth not to be true/ for the flowers fall/ and of them cometh fruit. But maces is a rind that is found about the nutmeg like a pill or husk as is about a wall nut/ and it may be kept ten years. Maces hath virtue to comfort the by good odour of it/ and wasteth & spreadeth humours/ by the complxeion and quality thereof. The best colour thereof is brown with sharp savour and somewhat bitter.  

¶ For digestion. A  
¶ Against ill digestion/ and cold of the stomach/ take wine that maces is sudden in and make a plaster thereof and lay it to the stomach/ and for feebleness of them that hath been seek. Make a plaster of powder of maces and mastic with oil of roses and wax.   

¶ For the brain B  
¶ To purge the brain of superflue humours/ chaw maces and hold it long in the mouth   

¶ For the stomach. C  
¶ For weakness of the stomach and the liver caused of cold/ and against dropsy & wringing or wambeling of the belly and for the pain of the breathe/ and other sickness of the bulk caused of course humours/ seethe maces in juice of fennel/ and when it is sudden put a little wine thereto/ & than strain them/ & let the patient use it.    

¶ De Myrra. Myrrh. Ca CC.lxxxviij.  
myrrh is hot and dry in the second degree. It is the gum of a tree that groweth in Ind which in summer time cleaveth to the tree. Myrrh that is yellow or somewhat brown is best. There be two manners of it. One is mean/ and the other course. Some call it Trocliten for the place that it groweth in.   depiction of plant 
It hath virtue to comfort/ and join limbs together. To waste & spread humours by the complexion & quality thereof. It keepeth fro rotting/ and thereof in old time folk anointed deed bodies therewith to keep them long. It may be kept a. C. years.  

¶ For the pose. A  
¶ For rheum that falleth fro the heed to the breast called catarrus or pose/ make pills of myrrh/ storax/ and calamynt/ & use it. The same is good to comfort digestion & course humours or phlegm of the stomach.   

¶ For the breast. B  
¶ For pain of the breast called asma/ and against ache of the bulk. Take the wine that gum arabic and myrrh is sudden in or figs and myrrh Wine that myrrh is sudden in comforteth digestion/ and against stench of the mouth caused of ill air coming fro the stomach/ and also for them that have dirt or filth in their stomach or bowels.   

¶ For the gums. C  
¶ Against rotting of the gums/ rub them with myrrh/ and it will do it away and fasten/ and rejoin the wounds. The fume of myrrh received at the mouth comforteth and purgeth the brain. And if it be received with a fonell it comforteth/ cleanseth/ and chauffeth the matryce/ and wasteth the superfluities/ and helpeth to conceive. And if the fume be received at the fundament it helpeth against constyfnesse if it be caused of cold.    

¶ De. Milio. Mill: Ca CC.lxxxix.  
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Mill is a seed/ that is cold in the first degree/ and dry in the second a●●● that proveth the light hollowness thereof/ and that it hath no moisture nor fatness It nourisheth least of any grain that breed is made of/ and breedeth least blood/ and the blood that it breedeth is nought/ but yet it comforteth the stomach/ and other membres by the dryness thereof/ and bindeth the womb. Diascorides saith that it is a perytyfe and diuretic/ if it be baken in a pan It is very good against wrentche of the belly/ if it be laid hot thereto. It cooleth the stomach and wasteth the superflue humours thereof.   

¶ De maiorana. Macgetym gentle. Ca CC.xc.  
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MArgerym is an herb that is hot and dry in the second degree/ it is also called sausucus. The leaves & the flowers be good in medicine. It ought to be gathered when it beareth flowers and dried in a shadow/ and may be kept a year. It hath virtue to waste and spread humours by the quality/ and to comfort with good savour. The powder thereof taken in meats and the wine that it is sudden in warmeth the cold stomach/ and comforteth digestion. The smell of it comforteth the brain. If the leaves & flowers be laid in a bag to the stomach or to the heed/ it taketh away the wind and pose caused of cold and wind. If bathe be made of it in water it cleanseth and wasteth humours of the matryce.   

¶ De melissa. balm. Ca CC.xci.  
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MElisse is an herb hot and dry in the second degree. It hath great virtue green and dry/ & aught to be dried first in the son and than in the shade/ and may be kept a year. It hath virtue as magerym to comfort/ to waste/ and spread humours but it provoketh and causeth retentive menstrues to flow more than margerym and cleanseth the matryce/ and helpeth conception more.  

¶ For hot apostumes. A  
¶ Also it is good against hot and venomous apostumes/ meddled with grece and laid to them/ and against all aches if it be laid to the sore places ix days. The wine that melisse is sudden in is good to keep one fro swooning if the cause be cold. If it be sudden in wine and oil and laid to to apostumes it ripeth and softeneth them and spreadeth the hardness of the liver & milt.    

¶ De mora celsi. mulberies. Ca CC.xcij  
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mulberies be of two kinds. The tame that be hot and moist and been fruit of a high tree/ and been called mora celsi/ and they ought to be put in medicines There be other that be wild & is a fruit that groweth in bushes on breres/ & we call them black berries. And these wild berries been hot and dry/ and aught to be gathered when they be black they have virtue to divide humours/ to spread/ and to cleanse humours.  

¶ For the quynsy. A  
¶ Against apostumes of the throat called Squynancy/ and for the dig of the tongue roots/ and against swelling of the cheeks caused of cold rheum of the heed take the electuary called dyamoron wherein mulberies hath chief virtue and for the same take this gargarism wring out the juice of molberies & seethe it a little in oil and wine/ and put vinegar thereto/ and so use it. Also electuary made of the juice of these berries with scummed honey is good for the same. And it may be kept ten years in stead of dyamoron. The juice of mulberies warmed a little unbindeth the womb if it be bound by reason of cold. The juice of the bark of a mulberies tree or the powder thereof taken with honey sleeth worms in the womb. The wine that the said bark is sudden in cleanseth the guts/ for it hath virtue to divide and to waste humours.   

¶ To pull out a tooth easily. B  
TYf a little case of gum of a mulberies tree is made about a rotten tooth & causeth it fall out/ and to be drawn with pain. The wild black berries have some virtue to restrain by their quality/ & virtue to spread & divide humours by their eager sourness. Ysaac saith that the tame mulberies be of two manners for some of them be unripe and be sour and sharp/ & they that be ripe be sweet. The unripe berries been cold and dry/ and have stiptic virtue and sharp and comforteth the stomach and the guts/ and bindeth the womb & therefore when they be dry they been good for the bloody flux of the womb 〈◊〉 caused of collar. And the juice is good for evils of the throat/ of the cheeks/ and of the dig and is better if it be sudden in wine with a little sugar. They that be ripe be hot and moist/ and more moist than hot and therefore they pass lightly through the stomach/ and looseth the womb and provoketh urine they dygest well/ but they nourish little. If they be taken fasting washed in cold water that quench the thirst and heat.   

¶ For the womb. C  
¶ If the rote of molbery be sudden in water and drunken looseth the womb and putteth out worms that be rough and ●●orte called cubytyns.   

¶ For the teeth. D  
¶ Water that the twigs/ and rotes of mulberies is sudden in is good for the tooth ache if it be kept long in the mouth. And stoppeth the thick humours that falleth fro the heed to the teeth/ and to the dig Take the rote of molbery and beat it with vinegar/ and lay it in vinegar a fortenyght in the son/ and than dried and put to powder & laid on rotten teeth looseth and causeth them to fall.    

¶ De matrissilua. Would bind. Ca CC.xciii.  
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MAtryssylue is an herb called periclimeon. It groweth on hills and stony places/ & hath boughs hard as wood and spreadeth on the ground and rampeth on hedges and hath a whytysshe flower in a manner round/ and hallow as the navel of the womb/ and hath a reed sede coming within forth of the leaves in the crops or the top and beareth .v. or. seven.  

¶ For the fever quartain. A  
¶ Against fever quartain this is a certain experiment. Gadre this herb in the wane of the moan and stamp it and meddle it with meal and honey/ and make balls or cakes fried to the number of xlv which shall be taken the first day ix the second viii. the third day vii and so every day one less till it come to one.    

¶ De Petrocilio macedonico. Stammarche or Alysamder. Ca CC.xciiii.  
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MAcedony is a country/ and this herb strammarche is called percely of Macedony/ or Alexandre/ of a certain king of the same land so named. It groweth in gardyns and other places/ and is like to smalache but it hath bitter leaves/ and beareth a black sede. It hath hot virtue and bitter.  

¶ For the stone. A  
¶ Against pain of pissing of the stone The rote of alexandre fried and eaten is good/ and against the vice of the matryce if it come of cold or moist humours/ and therefore the sede thereof is put in a medycyn called trifera magna. And when macedone or alexandrium is found in recepts it is to wite the seed of stammarche. And if it be the rote it is said expressly.   

¶ For pain of pissing B  
¶ For them that piss with pain/ lay the leaves thereof on a hot tile/ and lay them warm to the share.    

¶ Morsus diaboli. Remcope or devils bit. Ca CC.xcv.  
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MOrsus diaboli/ is the devils bit and is so called because the rote is black and seemeth that it is jagged with biting/ and some say that the devil had envy at the virtue thereof and beat the rote so for to have destroyed it. It groweth in moist and shadowy places/ and is leaved like borage/ but they be not so rough and be styffer and hewn/ and groweth an armful high and hath a ruddy flower.  

¶ For an aposteme. A  
¶ Against a venomous aposteme that some men call entrax or saint chrystofers evil bruise the herb and lay it thereto & renew it often/ & without doubt it will heal it. It is good against pain of the matryce if it be eaten or the decoction thereof drunken,    

¶ De Ima muscata. Ca CC.xcvi.  
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MVscate is called herb of musk/ & is so called because that it hath odour or smell as musk. And is of three manners the great/ the mean/ and the less/ and ha●● like virtue/ and groweth in sandy places The great hath leaves of a span longe● and it beareth a little flower like to an herb called doves foot/ and the sedes hath pricks like needles. The less muscate hath small leaves like pimpernel.  

¶ For the sinews. A  
¶ This herb in all things hath virtue against pain of the sinews/ & all gouts/ and therefore it is put in a salve or ointment called merciaten for the said causes. The great muscate sudden in wine/ or a plaster thereof made with greas of fear laid to the sore places helpeth & sowpleth.    

¶ De millefolio. yarrow/ myllefoyle. Ca CC.xcvij  
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MIllefoly or yarrow in some places is called carpenters grass/ it is good to rejoin/ & sewdre wounds. If the juice he meddled with terbentyne/ wax and oil  

¶ For hemorrhoids. A  
¶ Against hemorrhoids and strings in the fundament that appear not but been hid take and drink the juice of this herb in the morning/ and also it killeth worms in the belly/ if it be to bitter/ take the broth that is made thereof.    

¶ De Musis. Ca CC.xcviii.  
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Muses' been dry in the middle of the first degree/ and moist in the end of the same. It is a fruytelyke to cytrulles And some call them apples of paradise/ they grow beyond the see and have leaves like to enulacampana/ and in many wise they moist the womb/ and the sharpness and dryth of the breast/ and of the lungs/ & therewith nourish well/ but it is grossly and therefore who so useth them much have pain and heaviness of the stomach and stop the ways of the milt and liver/ & therefore ginger/ & otmell aught to be eaten after them if the person be cold of nature. And if he be hot of nature eat oxizacre after them.   

¶ De Melangis. Ca CC.xcix.  
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mElonges been fruits of an herb so called the beareth berries as great as pears/ and the leaves be brown and have a bitter savour and been not allowed of masters for they have four evil qualities. Isaac saith that they be hot & dry in the second degree/ and saith that they have savour bitter & sharp/ that biteth the tongue/ and therefore they be soon turned in to melancolic humours or adust collar of their kyndde/ and therefore they because of frekens/ blains tetters/ canker/ and lepre/ and breed hot and hard aposteme/ and stoppeth veins of the body But who will minish their annoyance must cleave them and fill them full of salt and so stepe them in warm water/ three or four times till the water be not black/ and than sudden/ and the water cast away and than sudden in pottage with fat flesh of beef/ mutton/ or pork & who that will eat the broth without flesh put vinegar with a little oil thereto.   

¶ De Mora bacci. Ca Ccc.i  
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MOra bacci is a wild fruit that groweth in bushes and briars and they be called black berries/ and been hot and moist in the first degree as Plinius saith/ of this black berries is rehearsed in the. CC.xcii. chapter of mora celsi aforesaid.  

¶ For the gravel. A  
¶ Black berries be good for them that have the gravel/ for they cause them well to piss/ and that causeth them to void the stone that have been long in the bladder.   

¶ For the leper. B  
¶ The juice of it gathered and tempered with the syrup made of wild sauge is good for them that been leprous/ and they that feareth the coming of it shall use every morning to drink thereof half and ounce.  
¶ Cassius felix saith he that is full of itch he shall anoint himself in a bathe with the juice of black berries/ than shall his skin be fair and smote    

¶ De Melonibus Melons. Ca CCC.ii.  
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MElons that we call pompous be of two manners. There be some long and some round. But the round be of courser substance and more gleymy/ and that is seen by their figure/ for it signifieth that humour that they be bred of because it was gleymy that it is equally spread round about to grow. But the long been of more nimble substance/ and th'inner/ because it is put in a long figure in growing/ and that is proved by reason/ for the savour of the round is thoucheth somewhat to sweetness. But the savour of the long is werysshe as water/ with a sweetness/ which betokeneth that the substance is cones or gross/ and therefore the long Pompons/ be not so noyful as the round. But they have little virtue to cleanse/ to wasste & purge. The round be more noyful but they have more virtue to cleanse/ to wasste and to unstop/ for if the body is rubbed with them it is cleansed of all filth. They ben both ready to turn to rottenness/ and lightly they change to the quality of humours that they find in the stomach/ whatsoever they be/ phlegmatic or choleric/ and therefore they grieve the stomach/ & soften the sinews of the body/ & maketh them lethy and make the stomach slyder/ & take away the sharpness thereof. And when they be eaten after other meat by their soaking in the stomach/ anon and before it be digested they cause wind and wringing in the womb & bowels/ and sometime provoketh vomit and wambeling & causeth ill appetite. And therefore who that will use them eat them fasting/ and take none other meats till ye think them digested And in this manner they dygest well & cause good humours though they be phlegmatic. And other wise they breed ill humours & cause strong fevers/ and specially to them that be dry & hot of kind/ that because the tenderness of their substance that change light to choleric humours. The rote of the herb and also the melons be not so cold as the pith of the fruit And when they be dried they become dry to the end of the second degree/ and therefore they be more slipper/ & unstopping the veins and conduits than the fruit. The sedes provoketh urine & causeth to piss/ and cleanseth the reins and the bladder of gravel and stones. But the virtue is more in work of the reins than of the bladder/ because the gravel & stones of the reins be soft/ & of the bladder hard/ & therefore behoveth harder medicines to the bladder than to the reins.  

¶ To provoke vomit. A  
¶ Two drams of the powder of the rote provoketh vomit.   

¶ For heat in the stomach. B  
¶ Melons Pal●stynes that we call saracens Melons/ have less moisture than the other/ & resisteth more to turn in to corruptions/ and therefore they be better for them that have great heat in the stomach and that have fever/ for their coarseness & cold abateth heat of the fever.    
¶ Thus endeth the names of herbs beginning with. M.   

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¶ De Narsturcio. Tame cresses Ca CCC.iii.  
NArsturcium is Cresses. It is a common herb/ nevertheless there be two sorts. For there be water cresses/ and gardyne cresses. And when cresses is only spoken of without any addition it is garden cresses. It is hot & dry in the fourth degree. Some call them gusium/ and other anthonaes. The seed hath more virtue than any part of the herb. And when cress is found in recepts it is the seed and not the herb. The seed may be kept .v. years good The herb hath great virtue green/ & dry but little.  

¶ For palsy of the tongue. A  
¶ Against palsy of the tongue/ that is when the tongue is full of holes/ and the patient can not speak because the sinews of the tongue is full of humours at it happeneth often in fevers ague. Therefore do chaw the seed of cresses/ and hold it long under the tongue.   

¶ For palsy. B  
¶ Against palsy or persecution of other membres/ put this seed in a little bag & seethe bag and all in wine/ and lay it to the seek member. The herb eaten or sudden with flesh is good therefore.   

¶ For humours in the brain. C  
¶ Against abundance of overmuch humours of the brain as of lytargye/ blow the powder of the sede in to his nose and cause him snese.   

¶ For the dig. D  
¶ Against pain of the dig when it is lose or fallen. seethe this seed in vinegar with dry figs and make a gargarism thereof.   

¶ For ylyake or colic passion. E  
¶ Against grawing of the womb if it be above called ysyake or been the called colic/ if it be caused of cold/ put this seed in a bag & lay it to the painful place   

¶ For the urine. F  
¶ The same is good against letting of urine/ and that the herb be sudden in wine and oil/ and laid to the reins/ and the share.   

¶ For costiveness G  
¶ Against costiveness whereby the fundament cometh out/ if it be caused of gluey humours/ lay the powder of this seed to the fundament with powder of common/ and colofonie/ that is tar or soft pitch.    

¶ De Narsturcio agresti. Wild cresses. Ca CCC.iiii▪  
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NAsturcium agreste is wild cresses and groweth about high ways. It is principally good against the kings evil and kernels caused in joints by superflue humours/ & therefore the juice thereof must be drunken fasting xu days and the herb sudden and laid to is good.   

¶ De Sale nitri. Ca Ccc.u  
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nitre is hot and dry in the second degree. It is a vain of earth that is found in many places/ & is of two manners. For there is white that is like glass/ and that is to be chosen for the best/ and there is yellow and is not so good. It may be kept ever without appayring It hath virtue to divide and spread humours/ and also the cleanse/ and to hinder by the dryness.  

¶ For the colic A  
¶ Against colic passion. A convenable clystre is made with powder of nitre and salt water/ or with oil and honey.   

¶ To cleanse the face. B  
¶ To cleanse the face confycte the powder with honey and anoint the face.   

¶ For the stomach C  
¶ For the filth and dryte of the stomach by reason of an impostume that hath been in it or in the bowels/ take this powder with warm water or better with honey.   

¶ For scurf or skalle. D  
¶ Against scurf or skalle in the heed. Make an ointment of nitre/ of honey/ and oil. But wash the heed first with salt water & vinegar that seed of stafesagre hath be sudden in and after that it is washed with warm water four or. v●●●yes or more.   

¶ For the ears E  
¶ The juice with powder of wormwood if it be put in the ears sleeth the worms and cleanseth the fylthenesse.    

¶ De Nenufare. Ca Ccc.vi  
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NEnufar is an herb that groweth in water/ and hath large leaves & hath a flower in manner of a rose/ the rote thereof is called treumyan & is very big. It is of two manners. One is white/ & another yellow. For the best beareth a white flower and the other yellow. They be found in all regions hot and cold/ but the best is in a hot region. The flowers be good in medycyn and may be kept two years/ & must be gathered in September. syrups & drinks is made against hot access and for the liver in this manner. The flowers be sudden in water and sugar put thereto/ and thereof is the syrup made.  

¶ For heed ache A  
¶ For pain of the heed caused of heat/ the sarazyns put these flowers all a night in water/ and drink the water in the morning/ & put the flowers in to their noses.    

¶ De nuce muscate. The nutmeg. Ca CCC.vii.  
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NVtmygges been of hot and dry complexion in the second degree. It is the fruit of a tree that groweth in Ind. And is gathered when it is ripe and may be kept seven. years. The nutmeg that is smooth and heavy among other is to be chosen/ nor powdreth not when it is broken/ & hath a sharp & pricking savour. And if any of the proprieties faileth it is not good in medicines. It hath virtue to comfort by the sweet savour thereof/ & by the qualities & complexions.  

¶ For the stomach. A  
¶ Against coldness of the stomach & evil digestion/ & to amend the ill colour of the face. If these be caused of cold/ take in the morning half a nutmeg/ or a hole one if it be small/ & it will ease greatly. The author hath seen the experience.   

¶ For digestion B  
¶ Against ill digestion of the stomach/ of the entrails & liver take the broth that nutmeg is sudden in. And for the same wine with mastic. The wine that it is sudden in with annyce/ & common/ driveth away pain of the stomach caused of wind.   

¶ To recover strength. C  
¶ The wine that nutmegs is sudden in as aleberyes & such other is good to recover the spirits of them that have been lately seek. The nutmeg holden to the nose comforteth the brain & membres of the baulk.    

¶ De nuce Indica. Nuts of Ind. Ca CCC.viii.  
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NVttes of Ind been hot and dry●. But some say they be moist because they move lechery and cause good blod● But the author saith that cough/ increasing & abundance of lecery cometh by moistness yet it may come by heat & dryness/ for by the dryness the blood is made subtile/ & sharp/ & by the heat it is made warm/ therefore it is not to be denied that the said nuts be hot & dry. But when they been put in medicines the shells must be cast away & the kernels put in. & they may be kept ten years. ¶ Against letting of breathe caused of cold/ seethe fat figs in wine and beat them/ and wring out the broth & strain it/ & with the juice take the powder of nuts of Ind.   

¶ De nuce stiatyca. Ca Ccc.ix  
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Nvttes' stiatikes be hot and dire in the second degree. They be a manner of nuts that groweth beyond the see/ and be of the bigness of a common nut/ and have reed grains or sedes in them that have a sharp savour as pepper. They have virtue to chafe/ to dry/ and to comfort.  

¶ To comfort digestion: A  
¶ To comfort digestion make powder of these nuts with gynger/ and rynamum/ and put it in your meats.   

¶ For rheum. B  
¶ Against rheum or humours that falleth in to the gums caused of cold. Beat the grains of these nuts with mastic and hold it in the mouth and it will cause to avoid moche humours.    

¶ De nuce communi. Wall nuts Ca CCC.x.  
THe wall nuts been of two manners for some be dry and some be green The green be not so hot as the dry/ and have a certain moisture because they be  depiction of plant not perfitly ripe/ and therefore they be but of a small dryth/ and be somewhat grievous to the stomach. If they be eaten green with wynegre/ and a confection made of breed & salt fish called obsomogarus they keep the womb moist▪  

¶ For venom. A  
¶ They ought to be eaten against venom with rue. The dry nuts be of iii manners or sorts. For some there be newly gathered/ and some old gathered/ and some mean between both. The new gathered be moist in comparison of the other/ and have a little gleyvynesse/ and be windy and be somewhat stiptic. But the older they be the more they lose the moistness that they had and abound in fatness of oil/ and therefore if they be eaten they been soon turned in to choleric humours. But they that be very old have so moche of that fatness that their savour is like old oil/ & therefore they be not good in meats. They that be mean be grievous also to the body and stomach/ & be hard to digest/ & specially of them that be hot & dry & choleric & be contrary to them that have the cough caused of heat. And if we compare hasyll nuts to wall nuts we shall find the wall nuts of better feeding / because they have a steadfast substance and be not so fat and oily/ and the nuts be againward/ and therefore they nourish less and be always grievous/ & contrary to the sinews of the stomach/ if they find not the stomach well tempered or that it have such coldness as may abate the heat of the nuts/ and in such a stomach they be of good foding and digestion/ and in a hot stomach they bren/ parch/ and turn the humours in to choleric and cause fume that ascendeth in to the heed and eyes and troubleth the brain & sight But to delay their malice they must be powned in a mortar and laid all night in warm water that they may have moisture thereof/ and so they do become like to the green nuts. They be good in medicines/ for if they be eaten afore other meats with figs they keep the body fro all venomous things.   

¶ For biting of a wood dog. B  
And if they be stamped with salt & an any on they be good for biting of a wood dog if it be laid thereto.   

¶ For apostumes. C  
¶ Also if the be meddled with rue and honey they be good against apostumes of melancolic humours/ and they spread and waste phlegm laid to the places and if they be stamped with the rinds and laid to the navel they destroy apostumes within the body. A dram and a half eaten is good remedy against letting of urine. and if it be taken with vinegar it is good against fevers.   

¶ For tetters. D  
¶ Against tetters' spreading and not spreading. Spette it in your hand/ & put salt thereto and meddle them together and rub the tetter and scrape it with a knife/ & than anoint it with juice of a nut and it shall be hole.    

¶ De Nute vomyca. Spewing nuts. Ca CCC.xi  
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Spewing nuts be hot and dry The inner parts is used and not the rinds. They have power to cause vomit and purge phlegm and choleric humour in this manner. If phlegm or collar abound in the mouth of the stomach/ seethe the powder thereof with fennel sede/ and if there be phlegm take the water with outsmell/ and if there be collar take it with ●●egre syrup.   

¶ De Nigella: Cokyll. Ca CCC.xii.  
NIgella Cokyll is hot and dry in the third degree. It is the sede of a weed that growed in wheat in watery places/ and this seed may be kept ten years. It hath a triangle figure/ and hath three sides or corners/ and a black colour/ and hath a bitter savour/ and for the substance of bitterness it hath aparatyve and diuretic virtue/ and divideth and spreadeth phlegm and wasteth winds by the quality.  

¶ For worms in the womb. A  
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¶ A plaster made of the meal of cockle with juice of wormwood/ and laid to the navel sleeth worms in the womb/ and specially in children/ and for them that be great/ confycte this meal with honey/ & eat it. The said meal of cockle moisted in vinegar and dropped warm in to the ears sleeth the worms there.   

¶ For urine. B  
¶ Against letting of urine/ be it strangury or dyssury. Against gnawing of ye●ulke called ysyake passion. Take the wy●● that this seed is steeped all a night/ and ●ot sudden for it would do to much wyolente ●●lke Constantyne saith that when it is taken in to great quantity it sleeth. But who so hath great quantity put it in a bag and seethe it in wine and oil/ and than lay the bag therewith hot to the rains and share for the said diseases.   

¶ For scabs. C  
¶ Also seethe the powder of cockle in great quantity in strong vinegar/ and l●te it seethe till it be somewhat thick/ and than put nut oil thereto/ and make an ointment thereof that is good for the scab/ & taketh away tetters/ & ferkles of the face▪    

¶ De Nespilis. Meddlers or open arses. Ca CCC.xiii.  
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NEspile be meddlers or nelles. Their propryete is to comfort the stomach and to staunch bloody flux of the womb caused of choleric humours/ and to staunch vomit caused of the same/ & they provoke urine/ and be more behoveful for medicines than for meat. For they nourish but little/ and be better afore meat than after/ and be not grievous to the substance of the stomach and senewy sides thereof.   
¶ Thus endeth the herbs beginning with. N.   

¶ And here beginneth the names beginning with. O.  

¶ De basilicone. Basyll. Ca CCC.xiiii.  
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OXinium/ that is a common herb called basyl/ and is of ii kinds or sorts. One is called basil gentle/ or fine basil/ a hath small leaves/ and the other hath long leaves. The basil gentle is of more virtue than the other & hath a smell like clowes. And Constantyne saith that this basil is hot in the first degree & dry in the second. But the other is hot & dry in the first degree. The sedes and the herb be good for medicines/ and when basylycone is found in recepts/ it is the herb/ and specially in ointments. The sedes have virtue to staunch by the glemynesse that they have and that is seen anon when the be put in water they swell & be thick and of them cometh a glemynesse. These sedes comfort by their good odour/ & have virtue to depart and spread humours and may be kept three years.  

¶ For swooning.  
¶ Against swooning and faintness of of the heart. Take rose water that this herb is sudden in. For the same take wine that the herb hath lain in all a night.   

¶ For the stomach. B  
¶ For coldness of the stomach. seethe a great deal of it in wine/ but it is better in must/ and when it is sudden put white wine thereto in good quantity. It is comfortable and smelleth sweetly/ and is good for the diseases above said/ and against undygestyon of the stomach caused of cold. The seed of basil with a little of cadacace that is juice of sloes thyckened sudden in rain water and given to the patient.   

¶ For the matryce. C  
¶ For to cleanse the matryce/ & for the stynted menstrue. seethe this herb in water & make a little bathe about the orifice/ and make a suppository of the tender crops of this herb and lay to the place Constantyne saith that the juice of this herb put in to the matryce with an instrument for the same cleanseth the matryce/ and maketh it ready to conceive/ and cause the menstrue to run. This herb sudden in wine and oil laid to the hips and the belly is good for the ache of the womb. And if it be laid to the reins it helpeth against costiveness that is called tenasmon.    

¶ De Opoponaco. Ca Ccc.xu  
OPoponaco is hot & dry in the first degree. Opos in greek language is as much to say as juice. And opoponac is an herb so called It is the juice of vax. Vax is an herb like to ferula to foresaid. Opoponac is made in this manner a pit is made  depiction of plant round about the rote of this herb/ and the rote is cloven/ and thereout cometh a liquor that hardenet thereto by the heat of the son/ and than it is scraped away fro the bark of the rote. Opoponac is to be chosen that is of clearest and bright substance/ and a brown colour. And when it shall be put in medicine it must be cleansed in this manner. It is put in a small vessel and that vessel is put in to an other so that no water come to it/ and by heat of the water the purest doth melt/ and the covesest and earthy goeth aside. Than the purest is put in medicines after the quantity of the receipt. Smoke or fume made of opoponac is good against lethargy the sleeping evil. For it lesseth and spreadeth the matter that is cause thereof/ and purgeth it greatly underneath.  

¶ For hoorsnesse. A  
¶ Pylles made of round drops that is found in opoponac is good against hoorsnesse caused of cold. And they may be taken alone with a rear egg. For the same/ put opoponac all a night in the juice of an herb called horehound/ and in the morning heat the juice and put honey thereto and make a confection in manner of an electuary.   

¶ For colic passion. B  
¶ For the colic or ylyake passion put opoponac in juice of fennel/ and in the morning beat them together and sugar thereto/ and give it to the patient/ but first take a clyster. The most that may be given of opoponac is iii drams.   

¶ For the mother C  
¶ To cause the mother to flow/ and to cause the deed child to issue out of the womb and the skin that it lieth in. Make a suppository of Opoponac meddled in oil of musk/ and juice of wormwood and put in to the conduit. Opoponac taken with juice of wormwood & honey sleeth worm in the womb/ a plaster of opoponac healeth broken and slain sinews.    

¶ De Opio. Ca CCC.xvi.  
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OPium is cold and dry in the fourth degree. And is of two manners. One is called opium the bayke/ by cause it is made in the country of Thedes. It is the juice of popy/ as shall be showed afterward. The other is called opium tranensium/ that is assa fetida/ spoken of afore. But we will speak now of Opium made of popy/ and is made thus. A carfe or cleft is about the heed of poppy or in the leaves and the milk that cometh out cleaveth to the knop/ and than it is gathered and is called opimum/ & cometh out of Thebes and is the best/ and hath an horrible taste & is neither hard nor soft/ and hath a brown colour/ and is kept ix years. It is put in medicines to delay the heat of them/ and the compost medycyns that they be put in be called opiates. It hath virtue to staunch and to slay. But in hot medicines it hath not that effect because heat of spice letteth it.  

¶ To cause sleep. A  
¶ To cause a seek person to sleep. Meddle opium in woman's milk/ and put powder of mandragora thereto/ and to anoint the apostumes/ as the aposteme called erisipile that is caused of choleric humours And as herpes/ that is an impostume that is reed and eaten round about. Confyet opium with juice of an herb called knotgrass or corrigiole/ or with juice of henbane/ and make a plaster thereto.   

¶ To cause sleep. B  
¶ The quantity of a grain or seed of a fyche of opium taken in the body astonyeth and mortifieth all the wits of man in such manner that he feeleth no pain & causeth him to sleep.   

¶ To delay ache. C  
¶ To take away over great pain/ confect opium with woman's milk & oil of roses and make a plaster/ and though it helpeth to mortify for the time/ yet it noyeth afterward/ because it keepeth the matter in the place fro spreading.    

¶ De Origano. Brotherworte. Ca CCC.xvii▪  
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ORiganum is hot and dry in the iii degree. And of it is two manners One is wild that hath brother leaves/ and is of stronger operation than the other. The other is tame and groweth in gardyns/ & hath less leaves and is of softer operation & it ought to be put in medicyns. It ought to be gathered when it beareth flowers/ and dried in a shadowy place. But in medycis the stalks must be casten away/ & it may be kept a year. It hath virtue to draw & spread humours/ & to lose & waste winds  

¶ For the pose. A  
¶ Against cold pose/ put the leaves & flowers in a bag/ and lay it very warm to the heed/ and cover it well till ye sweat. The broth that it is sudden in bobled in the mouth wasteth the humours in the gums and throat. The powder thereof laid on the dig of the tongue wasteth and delayeth the moistness thereof.   

¶ For the breathe. B  
¶ Against pain of the breathe called asma if it be caused of cold/ take the wine that it is sudden in with figs/ and the powder thereof confyct with honey/ and taken with warm water. The wine that it is sudden in comforteth digestion/ and ceaseth pain of the stomach and bowels/ small fasiolles of this herb sudden in wine and laid to the reins is good against let of urine and to them that pysse dropmeale.   

¶ For costiveness. C  
¶ For costiveness whereby the fundament cometh out/ if it come of cold/ put the powder of orygan on tow and lay it to the fundament whiles it is out. This herb well sudden in wine and oil laid to the matryce mollyfyeth it.   

¶ For the matryce D  
¶  made with water that it is sudden in cleanseth the matryce and cause the flowers to run. But a suppository is better of the tender crops of this herb put in the conduit.    

¶ De Tamarinde. Ca: CCC.xviii.  
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OXifinice that is called finiton/ or dates of ynde be Tamaryns & is a fruit that groweth on a tree in ynde/ & be like dates. They be dry & cold in the second degree. They must be chosen that be neither to hard nor to soft/ else they be corrupt and nought. They ought to have an eager smell & must be gathered when they be ripe. They be brought in to these countries with their sedes. They have virtue to purge choleric humours & to cleanse the blood & abate the heat thereof. When they be put in decoction they ought not to be boiled. But when the other medycins be sudden or otherwise they must be strewed with the hand in to the said decoction/ sometime it is bruised with cassia fistula in some liquor/ & is strained/ & myrabolans is tempered therewith and strained again/ & taken in the morning. Water that they be sudden in digesteth feverous humours They have a hard bark & seed. And they must be cleansed when they shall be used/ & they may be kept .v. years.   

¶ De Ordeo. Barley. Ca CCC.xix.  
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Barley is hot and dry. Many things in barley behoveth in physic. The meal/ the grain broken/ & also all hole. How be it the meal sudden in water long is good for them that have a fever or impostume in the membres of the bulk/ and aught to be take blood warm The water that barley is sudden in out of the husks till it ware thick & brown is good▪  

¶ For an impostume A  
¶ To cease growing of an impostume at the beginning/ make a plaster of barley meal/ eggs/ & vinegar/ for with that it putteth again it appeaseth greatly. & to ripe apostumes/ confect the said meal with yolks of eggs.   

¶ To ripe an aposteme. B  
¶ To ripe apostumes. Make a plaster of barley meal/ of tar or pitch lyquyde or with terbentyne or honey/ either is good Of barley is made a profitable confection in this wise/ barley is sudden in water & than is toasted/ and meal is made thereof/ and is confyct with sugar & that is good in summer to cool the stomach/ and the liver/ & to quench the thirst. In what manner that it is taken it must be sudden in water.   

¶ To make a ptysan. C  
¶ Also a ptysan is made of barley in this manner/ stamp barley that the husks may be taken away/ and of the cleanest take a certain measur/ and .v. times as much water and seethe it till it come to one measure and strain it & drink it. It is good to keep health and to moist the body/ and if the patient will be more cooled put thereto a little vinegar/ and if he be of hot nature put thereto a little poppy. This ptysan breedeth good blood in them that be hole/ & feedeth not less than breed/ and maketh them good and clear sight that have a hole brain. This ptysan ought to be given to them that be hole/ and to them that he seek it must be given as the disease of every one requireth/ and it quencheth thirst/ and who that will have a ptysan laxative and cleansing seethe barley in the husks/ and put manna & oil of vyolettes thereto. To unstop the conduits of the liver/ seethe fennel & smallage in this ptysan and take it with oxiacre.    

¶ Of the bone in the heart of a heart. Ca CCC.xix.  
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THe bone of a hearts heart is of cold and dry complexion. In the lift side of the heart of this be'st is found a bone/ wherein is a hollowness that the milt taketh respiration/ and sendeth a gross superfluity that turneth to a bone/ & this bone is tender & hath a part of the flesh of the heart stycking thereto. This bone is of brown colour by the blood of the heart/ & it is to wite that there is a tender bone in a goats breast which the apoticaryes do in manner as with the bone of the hearts heart & sell it in stead thereof. But the difference is known by that the goats bone hath no flesh sticking on it/ & is not brown of colour/ but is white & softer. The bone of the hearts heart may be kept xxx years good. It hath virtue to cleanse the blood/ & to purge melancolic humours/ & gross black fumes among the blood.  

¶ For the heart. A  
¶ For the faintness or swooning of the heart/ take the powder of this bone with juice of borage. or seethe it in wine/ & with that wine take the electuary called dyamargaryton/ that is good for the disease of the heart.   

¶ For melancholic. B  
¶ For all diseases that come of melancolic humours/ & against bleeding of hemorrhoids. Take this powder with sweet wine that beans hath be sudden in. Or meddle the powder with an electuary called dyasene Powdre of this bone & of blatabisancie given with warm wine wasteth the coldness that cometh of fever quartain at the beginning of the axcesse.    

¶ Of the bone of Sepia. Ca CCC.xxi.  
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THis bone breedeth in the body of the fish so named/ and is of dry and cold complexion.  

¶ To white the teeth. A  
¶ To white the thete make it in very fine powder/ & put it in a thin linen cloth & rub your teeth therewith   

¶ To white the face. B  
¶ To white the face/ put this powder in ointment citrine & anoint the face/ or make powder of the rote of serpentine/ and of this bone & meddle it with rose water & let it dry/ & than put to the same water again & let it dry/ & do thus four or .v. times & anoint the face/ as with ceruse.    

¶ De Olibano. Ca CCC.xxij.  
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OLibane is hot & dry in the fourth degree/ & is a manner ofences that is the gum of a tree that groweth in alexandria & is the best. There is that is course & is called meal encens or olibane. And this aught to be put in medicine/ & that is to be choose that is white/ clear/ & pure/ & the dim is to be refused. It hath virtue to comfort by the good air thereof/ & to restrain & knit by the glewynesse thereof.  

¶ For tears in the eyen. A  
¶ For the tears that run out of the eyes/ & for the tooth ache/ when they be caused of humours that fall by veins out of the heed/ lay a plaster to the temples of powder of olibane with white wine or gleyre of an egg   

¶ For the nostrils. B  
¶ For the bigness of the nostrils and redness caused of flux of humours. Take the broth that olibane is sudden in/ & in first in the morning pylles of olibane/ & at night to bedward the said broth. These pylles comforteth digestion/ & purgeth the stomach.   

¶ For the matryce. C  
¶ To comfort the matryce/ & to cleanse it/ & make it ready to conceive. Take the smoke of Olybane beneath/ or make a suppository of the powder with oil of musk/ or trifera magna with oil. Also chaw olybane with orygan or stafesagre/ and it will cause phlegm to come down fro the heed and easeth the tongue that is heavy. Take the powder of olybane confyct with wine and wet a cloth therein & lay it to the share often & it will comfort the matryce so the wine be warm   

¶ For woman's breasts. D  
¶ To cause breasts or paps of women to be small & slender. confect the powder of olybane with vinegar and wet clothes therein & lay them on the breasts. If olybane be meddled with sheep suet in manner of an ointment/ it is good to dry the nature of a woman/ & to restrain the body of blood in the same place. Olibane resowdreth new wounds if it be meddled with milk and laid to them.    

¶ De Oliva. olives. Ca CCC.xxiij.  
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olives been of two sorts/ the wild & the tame. The tame be of four sorts Some be green & be somewhat eager of savour/ & some be partly ripe/ & be black/ and there be between green & ripe/ and be reed. Diascorides calleth the green olives jacinctures/ which some aquatyke or watery because they have but little oil/ & be of two manners. For one is called properly aquatike/ & the other unproperly. They that be properly called aquatike or watery been earthy & have in manner none oil/ but a clear juice as water/ and be cold and dry and more comfortable to the stomach than any of the other. They bind the womb and nourish less than any of the other/ & be of hard digestion. The other be kept with vinegar/ & get a sharpness & dryth and therefore they cause the blood to flame and grieve the sinews of the stomach/ and be hard to digest/ & be more subtile & th'inner of melancolic humours/ & comforteth the appetite if they be taken in the middle of dinner. They that been properly called aquatyke been they that though they green yet of them cometh an oil that is called olium omphacium/ and they be more nourishing than the other aforesaid/ & also they comfort the stomach less because of their oil. They that be black & ripe competently be hot/ but they be mean between moist & dry/ and Diascorides saith that they have some dryness/ & Galen saith that they be moist & nourisheth well & soften the stomach and dygest & come lightly out of the body for their fatness causeth them to sw●mme in the stomach/ but by their oil they lose/ supple/ & anoint the stomach or they be digested/ & therefore they be not so wholesome as the green. For they breed ill blood They that be mean be less grievous than the black because they have less oil/ and somewhat comfort the stomach. But all the olives after the colour that they have breed humours of like colour. Galyen saith that reed olives that be not ripe been soon moved in to corruption/ & soften the stomach & moist the womb. Ripe olives be good for medicines. For if they be broken and laid to brent or scalded places they delay the bladders/ and blisters of the same.   

¶ De olio olivarum. Oil of olives. Ca CCC.xxiiij.  
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Oil of olives is of divers manners. For one is newly pressed out/ and ye●ther old. That that is newly pressed out is of ●●rype olives/ & is called oil omphacium how be it good oil known by the good savour/ and oil omphacium ought to be sharp poynaunt & eager in the mouth And the green that the olives be that it is made of/ the colder and drier is the oil and comforteth the stomach. Old men compared this oil to oil of roses New oil of black olives perfitly ripe is hot & moist temperately/ and softened the stomach and moisteth the womb/ and turneth lightly to choleric humours. But oil that of long time is pressed of olives if it be made of unripe olives hath none illness but it be somewhat eager. But if it have none/ it is ill/ and turn anon to evil humours and softeneth the stomach But yet it letteth not digestion. And if it be old and the savour thereof is sharp it is not good to eat.  

¶ For biting of a wood dog. A  
¶ Against biting of a mad dog. As soon as ye be bitten go to the church/ and make thy offering to our lady/ and pray here to help and heal the. Than rub the sore with a new cloth till it bleed/ and take three eggs and beat them/ Then take a cruse and fill it full of oily olive/ & put the three beaten eggs therein and beat them all together without salt/ and than take white cassie well cleansed/ and seethe the eggs therein without any oil or grease/ & stir it always a pace till they be well sudden/ & when all is well sudden together eat the better half/ and lay the other half on the wound as hot as may be suffered/ and ye shall be hole/ & ye must fast three or four hours after/ and let the plaster lie three or four days after.    

¶ De Oleandro. Ca CCC.xxv.  
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OLeandre or olipantrun is an herb the leaves thereof is like to laurel but they be longer. It growed in manner of a tree about floods/ and hath a venomous virtue. Therefore let every one beware fro rating thereof. some naughty persons make broochs or spetes thereof & roast meat on them/ and so venymeth the meat and causeth them to die that eat thereof/ and therefore it is need bewarde & utterly eschew it.  

¶ For skalled legs. A  
¶ This herb hath virtue against salt phlegm that causeth scabbed leg/ if it be sudden in water & the legs washed therewith morning and evening.   

¶ For the back & tallockes: B  
¶ It is good for pain of the back & swelling of the cods if it be laid plaster wise to them.    
¶ Thus endeth the herbs beginning with O.   

And begin the names that begin with. P.  

¶ De piretro. walwort. Ca CCC.xxvi  
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PIreter is hot and dry in the third degree. it is a common herb/ the rote thereof is put in medicine. The rote ought to be gaddred in winter & it may be kept .v. years. The best is stiff and hole/ and not worm eaten/ & crommeth not when it is broken/ & hath a sharpness that is not soon felt/ but it be chawed in the mouth It hath virtue to withdraw/ divide/ and waste humours. gargarism made of vinegar that pyreter is sudden in with fygues/ or made in sweet wine purgeth the heed of phlegmatic humours/ and wasteth the moistness of the dig/ and if it be chawed between the teeth it suageth the ache. If it be stamped and meddled with wine and oil/ and laid to a gout plasterwise/ or on any paralytyke it is good member. Grene pyreter beaten and laid afortenyght in wine/ and than sudden and strained/ and with oil and wax an ointment made is good for the above said things.   

¶ De pipere. Pepper. Ca CCC.xxvii.  
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Pepper is hot in the beginning of the fourth degree/ & dry in the mids of the same. There is three sorts of it For there is long pepper/ that is called macro pyper And there is white pepper that is called malano piper. Some say that they be fruit of divers trees. But Constantyne and Dyascorides say that they be all three of a tree growing in ynde/ and some say that pepper is made so black by brenning. For when it should be gathered for the great multitude of serpents thereabout/ they set fire about the trees that the vermyn may be brent and go away. But if that were true the trees should be brent. And therefore this author saith that they been fruit all of one tree but when it beareth flowers/ those flowers gather on a heap & stretcheth along as the flower of hasyll & that is long pepper/ and than it beareth an other manner of little fruit that is called white pepper & thereof have we none. But in stead of it is put catapuce or spourge of beyond the see/ which is no pepper/ for it is bigger and is not sharp as pepper. And if it be put in medicine the substance within must be taken and not the husks Black pepper is gathered when it is ripe/ and the saracens bake it in an oven for two causes. The first to keep it long/ & the second that it bear no fruit nor grow in other countries/ & the black pepper is of more virtue than the white or long pepper/ & it may be kept xl years. The white that we have not may be kept long enough/ and the long pepper twenty years Black pepper hath virtue to spread/ & divide humours. Powdre thereof put in the nose causeth to snese and to cleanse the brain of phlegmatic humours/ as snyvell/ and rheum. If it be meddled with oil/ & any patient having a fever be anointed therewith at the beginning of the axcesse/ with out doubt it will take the coldness and shaking away that cometh at the beginning thereof  

¶ To cleanse the bulk. A  
¶ The wine that pepper is sudden in with figs cleanseth the bulk and the membres of course gleymy and gluey flewmes and is good against the digestion. Cleve an apple and pike out the core & kyrnelles/ & fill it with powder of long pepper/ & wine & roast it in the fire & it conforteh digestion Powdre of the inner part of pepper often wet in rose water & dried is good to take away the web of the eye. And it may be put alone or put in rose water in manner of a colyre. white pepper may be put for the black/ but long pepper comforteth better Pepper noyeth sanguine & choleric persons. For it heateth overmuch/ & spreadeth the subtle humours/ & sometime causeth meselry.   

¶ For deed flesh B  
¶ The powder of pepper gnaweth the deed flesh of soores.    

¶ De peonia. Pyony. Ca CCC.xxviij.  
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PEonie is hot & dry in the second degree. It is an herb the rote whereof is so called/ & the rote is to be put in medicine. if peonie is found in recepts. It ought to be gathered in winter/ and may be kept ten years. And it is to be chosen that is black and not pierced. It hath virtue to divide and spread humours. ¶ Against the falling evil it hath a specially hid or secret virtue. as Galyen showeth of a child that fell not as long as it was hanged about his neck. But now we find not that it hath such virtue. And therefore some say that it is but one spece or kind of peonie only called peonie Roman. For the same disease the powder thereof with juice of mugwort or with pigamun that is wild rue.  

¶ For the palsy. A  
¶ Against palsy take this powder with wine that castoreum is sudden in.   

¶ For the urine. B  
¶ Against let of urine take the wine that it is sudden in.   

For the matryce. C  
¶ To cleanse the matryce/ make a smoke beneath or make a bathe to the said parts with broth that it is sudden in.  
¶ Against costiveness caused of cold put the powder thereof with cotton in to the fundament. And know ye that peonie is also called penthoron/ aglosotos/ & aliofotes.    

¶ De papavere. Poppy. Ca CCC.xxix.  
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POppy is cold & day/ & is in three manners. For there is white that is cold & moist/ & the black is cold & dry and the reed is more mortyfycatyfe/ & is called wild poppy. white poppy is called codion/ or codias/ and oxibonon/ & black poppy is called mycon/ & melon agryos. Poppy seed may be kept ten years/ poppy is expressly named/ white/ black or reed. Poppy hath virtue to mortify and cause sleep. ¶ To cause one to sleep/ make a plaster of them all or of one alone with woman's milk & white of an egg & lay to the temples. The women of Salerne give white poppy with their own milk to their children to cause them sleep. The black & the reed ought not to be taken for they mortify the spirits by their coldness. A ¶ Against hot apostumes at the first or they be form/ & also against chafing or heat of the liver/ stamp the seed of poppy & the herb together & confyct with oil of roses/ and laid thereto. ¶ For then that have over dry membres/ & for them that be ethykes or other dry fever take oil of vyolettes chafed and put powder of white poppy seed thereto & therewith anoint the ry●ge of the back.  

¶ For the bulk. B  
¶ Against dryness of members in the breast/ & for them the be very lean/ & the electuary called dyapapaver that poppy is principal in. For the same/ make electuary of juice of liquorice/ of gum arabic/ & dragagant of like quantity/ & put powder of poppy there to of like moche/ & confycte the said electuary with syrup of poppy/ & where ye find to take poppy only/ it is the white. white poppy meddled with barks of nuts dieth hear black. The flower of wild poppy cleanseth the spots in the eyes where as blisters have been. The white is good against cough caused of hot rheum that falleth fro the heed The black is perilous & caused to fall in lethargy & may mortify or slay.    

¶ De pencedano. Dogfenell. The mid confolde. Ca CCC.xxx.  
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PEncedane is an herb or wooed called dogfenell or swynefenel and is hot & dry. If ye find pencedanun in re●●ptes it is the rote/ for it hath more virtue than any part of the herb/ & may be kept 〈◊〉 year. It hath virtue to unstop the vay●●s of the reins/ and therefore it is dyuryt●ke.  

¶ For strangury. A  
¶ Against strangury & dyssury/ & against stopping of the liver/ and the milt/ take the broth that it is sudden in. And make a plaster to the share of the herb sudden in oil & wine.   

¶ For cold humours. B  
¶ Against cold humours in the members of the bulk as about the longs. Take water of bacly that this herb hath be sudden in with juice of lyroryce/ & if there be great quantity of humours seethe it in wine with juice of liquorice. A small bathe or wasshinge made of water that this herb is sudden in is good to cause menstrue to flow.    

¶ De petrocilio. Percely. Ca CCC.xxxi.  
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PEercely is hot & dry in the second degree/ & is in two manners/ that is wild & tame. The wild is called synomun. Their sedes is cheyfly in medicines if percely or synomum is found in recepts. These sedes may be kept ten years & have virtue to open the conduits of urine but the wild is stronger than the tame. They be good for the diseases that pencedane aforesaid is. Sauce is made of tame percely.  

¶ To comfort digestion A  
¶ The herb sudden with meats comforteth digestion/ & looseth the winds of the womb.    

¶ De policaria Ca CCC.xxxii.  
POlicary is hot in the third degree/ & dry in the second degree. It is an herb of three kinds/ the more/ the mean/ & the less/ the mean is most behoveful in medicines. When it is gathered the leaves with the rinds or stalks ought to be baken & so dried but in medycyn ought nothing to be put but the leaves. And it hath virtue to dissolve or spread humours/ to waste & divide them.  

¶ For the breath. A  
¶ Wine that it is sudden in with figs is good against let of the breathe/ & against cold rheum of humour in the breast.   

¶ For the matryce B  
¶  or washing made of water that it is sudden in cleanseth the matryce and enter thereof.   

¶ For costiveness. C  
¶ Thynne powder thereof laid to the fundament is good against costiveness caused of cold.   

¶ To break winds. D  
¶ The leaves in small boundelles sudden in wine and laid to the place grieved with winds wasteth them and ceaseth the pain   

¶ For the pose. E  
¶ And if these bondelles be heat on a tile without any liquor/ and laid hot to the heed is good against cold pose.    

¶ De pineis Pine trees or apples Ca CCC.xxxiii.  
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Pines be the kernels within the pine apples. They be hot and moist/ & if ye will put them in medycyn/ lay the apples on the fire till they been a little brent than take of the rinds within and without & put the kernels there as it needeth. They have virtue to sowple & to moist/ & to unstop. It is meat for them that have apostumes in the membres of the bulk/ and for them that have let of breathe caused of cold humour/ & them that have a dry cough/ & for them that have ill complexyon in the liver that drieth them/ or be dry of other thing for they nourish & increase blood/ & move lechery/ & they may be given to them with syrup/ or with meats or electuaries.  

¶ Against bloody flux. A  
¶ Against bloody flux of the womb/ the thick cind of the pine apples is good in this wise/ when it is new gathered of the tree seethe it in water/ and lay it on the coals and let the patient take the smoke.    

¶ De prunis. Plōmes. Ca CCC.xxxiiij.  
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Plommes be cold & moist/ there be two sorts of them/ black and reed The black be somewhat hard & be the best & among them the best be those the be called damask plommes or damassous. They ought to be gathered when they be ripe/ & they that will keep them must cleave them and dew them with vinegar/ & so they may be kept in a vessel of wood. But when they be cloven they must be dried xu days in the son/ and than put in syrup. They have virtue to smooth & polysshe the bowels. And therefore in ague fevers they be good for them that be bound in the womb because of dryth/ or choleric humours that drieth the womb/ and therefore the green be good to eat.   

¶ Of penicles or penettes. Ca CCC.xxxv  
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PEnettes be hot & dry/ and be made in this wise. Sugar is sudden in water so long that when a drop thereof is droppeth on a stone it waxeth hard and urytyll and breaketh. Than this sugar so sudden is laid on a stone to cool/ and than is hanged on a nail and handled & chafed with hands till it wax white/ and than is cut in small pieces and powdre of amidon cast thereon to white them the more and than they be penettes. It is good meat for them that have fevers caused of apostumes in the membres of the breast/ and for them the have great drought in the breast & for them that be very lean by sickness.  

¶ For the breast. A  
¶ Against the diseases of the breast they must be used with ptysan/ and for leanness of the body they may be taken alone or in meats. For the same thing an electuary called diapenidion made of penettes is good in fever ague/ or in the apostumes of the rib or of the lungs. Penettes be both good meat and medicine.   

¶ For the lips. B  
¶ For chepping of the lips/ delay them in water with tragacanth and anoint the lips.   

¶ For the mouth. C  
¶ Against fleyenge or rawness of the mouth coming of fevers/ and against small blisters/ and swelling there/ seethe yolks of eggs in water/ and than fry them till oil come of them/ and with that oil confect the powder of penettes of tragacanth/ and amidon/ & anoint the grief. This powder confycte with syrup of roses or vyolettes is good for the aforesaid things.    

¶ De Psilio. Ca CCC.xxxvi.  
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PSiliumis cold and moist in the second degree. It is the seed of a certain herb/ the which seed is to be had in ryne. It must be gathered in summer and may be kept ten years. And hath virtue to moist and refresh or cool.  

¶ For dryness. A  
¶ Against dryness of the tongue in a fever ague. Put this seed and bind it in a fine linen cloth/ and than put it in cold water/ and therewith wash and rub the tongue and scrap it with a knife.   

¶ For thirst. B  
¶ For thirst put this seed in a bag and lay it on the tongue.   

¶ For the breast. C  
¶ For drought of the breast and the membres in it/ and for them that be costyffe/ so that the breast be not stopped not the breathe short. Take psilium in water a certain space/ and than power out the water and take the same sede with other clean cold water. Psilium is convenably put in syrups ordained for sharp fevers & thereof must a great deal be made/ for if there were but a little by the glewynesse of the seed it would stick to the vessel or spoon that it is stirred with.   

¶ For the bloody flux. D  
¶ For bloody flux of the womb. Brenne psilium in an earthen vessel/ and put the powder in a rear egg or in rose water and that is best.   

¶ For bleeding at the nose. E  
¶ For bleeding at the nose the said plaster laid to the forehead or temples/ or make a tent of the said powder with bursa pastoris and put it in to the nose.   

¶ For hot apostumes. F  
¶ Against hot apostumes put psilium in a bag/ and moist it in some cold herbs and renew the psilium.   

¶ For the hear. G  
¶ Against sharpness of the hear wash the heed with water that psilium is sudden in. Psilium keepeth the camfere by the cold moistness thereof/ for it is of so subtle substance that it would waste if it were not put in to cold things.    

¶ De polipodio. Oak le●ue. Ca CCC.xxxvii.  
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POlipodi is hot & dry in the third degree. It is a weed moche like to fern/ and groweth on wall●s/ stones/ & upon oaks/ and that on the oaks is best. Gadre the rote & cleanse it and dry it a day in the son/ and it may be kept good two years/ and that rote is to be chosen that is somewhat green/ but that that is all wyd●●d is nought. It hath virtue to lose and divide/ and to draw/ purge/ and put out phlegm/ and melancolic humours/ and therefore it is put in decoctions ordained for phlegmatic and melancolic persons that be hole to preserve them fro sicknesses & it is to wite that in all places that polypody is put in some other things that wasteth winds must be put thereto as anise/ common fennel or such other.  

¶ For ache of the womb. A  
¶ Against wrenching or crowling of the womb be it high or low/ and for them that their hear falleth/ and for them that be gouty/ & to preserve them to fall again in to those diseases. Take half an ounce of polypody or an ounce if need be/ and that it be not in a hot ground and stamp it and seethe it with prunes/ vyolettes and squynant/ if there be any/ & put thereto a great deal of common seed and anis seed/ & strain them/ and give it to the patient. Another manner is/ stamp it as it is said/ and seethe it with common sede and anis seed/ and use that broth. Or seethe the powder with sweet smelling spices/ and therewith many been deceived that when they take medicine they ween not that it is polypody & so they take it and doth them profit. payment and clarey is made therewith if it be stamped and sudden in wine with spices. folk of the country take green polypody & confycte it with meal and eggs and make thereof pancakes and frytures that looseth sufficiently and somewhat to much against the foresaid sickness it may be taken or the decoction of polypody that is made in water or in the juice or seed of fennel/ and thereto put two drams of hermodates.    

¶ De palea.  
¶ Palea is an herb moche like to wheat but it hath thicker leaves & whiter/ & groweth in pits & by high ways. The leaves dried/ & the powder made of them and laid on new wounds stauncheth the blood and resowdreth the wound & healeth it.   

¶ De Petroleo. Ca CCC.xxxviij.  
PEtroleum/ is oil of stone. It is hot and dry in the third degree & is found in sulfery places of brimstone And is made of the fatness of the earth and water that by heat of the place is turned in to substance that hath a party hot and fiery of fire/ and is found upon stones in  tree beside water manner of sweat. There is enough found upon the see that is black/ but by continuance it whyteth. Sometime is found yellow. It is also made by craft in Grece and other parts beyond the see and it may be long kept in a vessel of glass or of tin well stopped. Petroleum is to be chosen that is yellow or white/ and clear of substance and stinking. It may be lightly countrefayt with other oil. For a little of it maketh a great deal of other oil to stink. This oil hath a strong virtue as fire/ and hath virtue to spread/ waste/ and withdraw humours.  

¶ For all gouts. A  
¶ Against all manner of gout/ be it in the hands or hips. And against wringing of the belly/ anoint the aching places therewith. ¶ For ache of the womb. B ¶ Against gout and ache of the womb Some take it in quantity of a dram or two with drink. And the author saith that he hath seen some heal and some die. And therefore it ought not to be given to a weak person in summer/ nor to choleric folk. Nor it ought not to be given but if the matter that causeth the disease be cold and at the most but two drams.   

¶ For swelling of the feet. C  
¶ Against strong podagre that is ache in the feet/ seethe petroleum in juice of yebles and strain it and give it to the patient.   

¶ For the stone. D  
¶ Against the stone it is a sovereign remedy if the powder of the stone called linx be very small and sudden in petroleum/ and the said oil put in to the yard with a cyryngne it will break the stone that is hardened. But the yard must be often bathed with water that mulberries is sudden in with oil to open the conduits thereof.   

¶ Against let of the breath. E  
¶ Against let of the breathe called asma if it be caused of cold/ and against old cough/ anoint the breast without first therewith that the matter may digested the better/ than take a dram or two at the mouth   

¶ For the matryce. F  
¶ Against disease of the matrice if it rise upward. Put petroleum on hot coals & let the waman receive the fume at the mouth or nose/ or make a suposytory of cotton weet in petroleun. And when petroleun is used first some cold & moist thing ought to be taken. For petroleum fleyeth/ and the cold thing fresshed and saveth the skin.  
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¶ De Fistucis. Ca CCC.xxxix.  
PIscates been called fistuces/ festnesse or straws and is a fruit there groweth beyond the see/ and be ly●e pines/ & be hot and moist/ the inward substance is to be put in medicine. They have virtue to heat/ to smooth/ and to soften.  

¶ For the breast. A  
¶ Against coldness of the breast they be good to be eaten as almonds. They encreas the natural seed of man in this manner. Stamp them & confycte them with honey and put thereto powder of nuts/ and of these little beasts called stynces in little quantity And if they be taken with wine that they be sudden in they help against venom/ & be good for them that have a naughty liver. Oil is made of them that is good against pain of the heed. Diascorides saith that they be good for the stomach. But Galen saith that they do neither good nor harm.    

¶ De portulace. Porcelayne/ Ca. CCC.xl.  
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POrtulax is a virtuous herb. It coldeth in the third degree and moisteth in the second/ and hath virtue to soften and to keel. It is good meat for choleric folks that be diseased with fevers caused of collar. And also for them that be hole/ if it be eaten raw it is profitable. The water of the decoction is good to conserve the heat of the inward membres. It cooleth the heat of fevers/ it provoketh urine and unbindeth the belly. It profiteth against clyftes of the lips and fleyenges of the mouth. Brenne the rote thereof in a brassen vessel and make powder confyct with honey/ and anoint the lips therewith/ & also it paleth the synsures of lazars anointed therewith.  

¶ For hot apostumes: A  
¶ And if it be brayed with vinegar it is good against hot apostumes. The juice thereof with all the herb is profitable against the hurts of the bowels/ for it suppleth them. And is good to moderate the unmoderate flux of the matryce. Howbeit if it be used to much it marreth the sight and cooleth the body/ & letteth the choleric vomit/ and habitation of woman. The said herb chawed with a little vinegar stoppeth the bleeding at the nose/ and suageth the brenning of the stomach caused of collar. It is good against fevers if a plaster thereof be laid to the stomach with a little vinegar. It healeth the tooth ache if it be chawed/ and healeth blains if it be bruised and laid thereon.   

¶ For pain of the reins. B  
¶ The juice thereof is good against pain of the reins and of the bladder/ & restraineth the flowers or menstrues in women. Water thereof is good for bleeding hemorrhoids.    

¶ De plumbo. Lead. Ca CCC.xli.  
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Head is told in the second degree make a mortar & a pestle of lead and put oil of roses or vyolettes in the said mortar/ and stamp them with the said leaden pestle till they become somewhat thick and than set it xi days in the son/ and moist it often with oil of roses or vyolettes and put it in a vessel/ and it is good against brenning or scalding of fire or water.  

¶ For hot apostumes. A  
¶ Against hot apostumes and fleyenges caused of heat/ and against brenning & corosyfe sores. A medicine or salve called ploucras is made in this manner. Put molten lead in a certain vessel/ & bruise stalks of chervil or hazel or an herb called spurge/ and stir the said lead till it seem small lompes as it were cendres. The which afterward may be put in powder.    

¶ De polio montano. Wild tyme. Ca CCC.xlii.  
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POlium is of divers kinds but the best groweth on hills and aught to be put in medicine. It ought to be gathered when it flowereth/ and may be kept a year. And it hath virtue to divide and waste humours/ and to unstop the conduits of urine. The broth that it is sudden in with raisins is good against cold of the breast and longs.  

¶ For the stomach. A  
¶ Against pain of the stomach and of the bowels/ take the broth that it is only sudden in/ if it come of cold or wind.   

¶ For the liver. B  
¶ To unstop the liver/ the milt/ and the reins/ and letting of urine/ the wine that it is sudden in is good.   

¶ For pain of the belly. C  
¶ And if it be sudden with wine and oil it is good against pain of the belly/ and let of the urine if it be laid thereto.    

¶ De pice. Pitch. Ca CCC.xliij.  
Pitch is of divers sorts for there is ship pitch and pitch liquid or thin/ or tar. The ship pitch is  depiction of plant or plants growing out of rocks near cliff (?) the less hot and dry. Some say that the liquid pitch is the draftes of the ship pitch. But that is not so. For they be made of divers trees in this manner. The bows or twigs of the trees be but in a vessel/ and fire is made underneath/ and another vessel above that the liquor droppeth in out of the boughs. The pitch liquyde hath virtue to spread and vast humours.  

¶ For scabs. A  
¶ For scabs make an ointment of liquid/ pitch called tar with vinegar and nut oil mingled together. Or stepe litarge a night in vinegar/ and in the morning meddle the tar with oil and make an ointment.   

¶ For tetters. B  
¶ Against tetters'/ meddle or payment with liquid pitch/ and put french soap thereto and with that anoint the tettre.   

¶ For the scalle C  
¶ For the scalle on the heed. Take white pitch & black/ of each alike moche. Than take lonie/ & long plantain alike moche and make half a spoonful of their juice/ and take as much grommel as of both the other/ and half a spoonful of strong vinegar / and meddle all together & then take half an egg shall full of meal dust and as much dragon's blood and put a little salt thereto/ & seethe all together till it thycken as an ointment/ and than shave the heed/ and wash it with white wine and upon every scalle lay a plaster/ and let it lie a natural day/ and than pluck it of against the hear/ and shave the patient every eight day/ and wash it sharply with white wine/ and the better to purge the roots of the scales cause him to make all the excess that he may by the mouth. That is to say eat onions/ garlic/ and such other meats/ and lay on plasters still till the heed pill and lay them so hot as he may abide them/ & he shall be hole in a month Probatumest.    

¶ De plantagine. plantain or weybrede Ca CCC.xliiij.  
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plantain is an herb that the greek call arroglosse. It is called also quinque nerua/ and great plantain/ and groweth in moist places & plain fields.  

¶ For tooth ache. A  
¶ For the tooth ache put the juice and leaves in the mouth/ and it will rease the pain anon/ and if the cheek be swollen make a plaster of the leaves & lay them hot thereon and it will suage the swelling marvelously.   

¶ For pain in the body. B  
¶ Against pain within the body. The juice of plantain drunken ceaseth the pain & purgeth the breast.   

¶ For spitting of blood. C  
¶ And for them that spette blood/ drink the juice fasting.   

¶ For all foul wounds. D  
¶ And to heal all foul wounds lay the powder of plantain on them. Also this herb is good against all gadring of humours.   

¶ For biting of a serpent. E  
¶ Against biting of a serpent/ eat the herb and drink the juice/ and it putteth out all venom.   

¶ For stinging of a scorpion. F  
¶ It is good also for stinging of a scorpion/ and biting of a spider if the rote be bruised and laid thereon.   

¶ For worms in the belly: G  
¶ To slay or void worms out of the body drink the juice and lay a plaster of the leaves to the navel.   

¶ For fever quartain. H  
¶ For fever quartain drink the juice meddled with water afore the access/ & it will do good effect.   

¶ For swelling of the feet. I  
¶ And against swelling aches of the feet bruise the flowers of plantain with a little salt and lay thereto.   

¶ For fevertercian. K  
¶ For fever tertian/ bruise three leaves of plantain with wine or water/ & drink it at the time of the axcesse/ and it helpeth greatly.   

¶ To bring out a child's bed. L  
¶ To cause the child's bed in the mothers womb to come out/ take the powder of the ledes thereof with water.   

¶ For swelling of the feet. M  
¶ For swelling of the feet with going/ stamp the leaves and lay on them.   

¶ For the mouth. N  
¶ For pimples in the mouth the leaves eaten and holden long in the mouth is good.   

¶ For the throat. O  
¶ For swelling of the throat/ bruise the herb with suet and lay it thereto.    

¶ De lanceolata. Long plantain. Ca CCC.xlv.  
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Long plantain is good against fystales/ if the juice be put in them divers days/ it healeth and sleeth them.  

¶ For biting of mad dogs. A  
¶ For biting of a wood dog/ stamp this herb and lay thereto.   

¶ For the bladder. B  
¶ For pain of the bladder/ bruise the herb with the roots/ and wring out the juice & drink it/ & it is good against venomous beasts.    

¶ De panico. Panyke. Ca CCC.xlvi.  
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PAnyke is a seed like Gromell in nature and shape. But it feedeth less than grommel/ & bindeth more the womb It may be taken divers ways and doth divers operations. But in what manner so ever it is taken grommel is better. Panyke is sudden with fat flesh/ with oil/ or almond milk. That that is sudden with fat flesh or oil is convenable enough for it lose a great part of dryness/ & therewith getteth good smake and feeding/ & loseth the might of binding of the wom●● by the fatness of the grease and oil. There is two manner to seethe it in water. for it may be sudden grounden or hole. And for one measure of panyke or grommel take xu measures of water. In this manner sudden it is hard to digest/ & bindeth not the womb but it grieveth the stomach and goeth out thereof hole/ and grieveth the guts/ & therefore they put it soon out/ and so it bindeth not That that is grounden must be sudden thus Syft the meal from the bran/ and put thereto ten times as much water & when it is sudden two or iii times strain it/ & seethe the straining again till it be thick/ and this manner of seething is best & maketh it light & is the best manner to cause it bind the womb.   

¶ De Prnthafilone. Synkefoyle/ or .v. lived grass. Ca CCC.xlvii.  
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Peenthafilon is an herb called fine leaved. For pentha in greek is .v. and filo is leef. And so penthafilon is to say herb with .v. leaves. It groweth in sandy places and meadows. It beareth five leaves on a stalk and hath yellow flowers/ & stretcheth on the ground.  

¶ For the joints. A  
¶ For pain of the joints that cometh of strokes or travail Bruse this herb with old lewd and lay thereto.   

¶ For the womb. B  
¶ For ache of the womb caused of choleric humours/ drink the juice thereof & it will cease the ache.   

¶ For the gums. C  
¶ Against rottenness of the gums. The cheek rubbed therewith taketh away the rotting.   

¶ For the heed. D  
¶ For the pain of the heed bruise the herb and rub the forehead and heed therewith   

¶ For bleeding of the nose. E  
¶ Against bloody flux of the nose/ drink the juice or anoint the forehead or else drink the wine that the rote is sudden in.  
¶ Against biting of serpents. The juice thereof drunk putteth out all venom and therefore it is put in treacle.   

¶ For cankers. F  
¶ Against canker/ bruise the leaves with sews grease/ and put old white wine thereto/ and it is a good remedy.    

¶ De lingua passerina. Sentynode. swines grass knotgrass/ or sparrow tongue. Ca CCC.xlviij.  
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POligonia is an herb called sparrow tongue. It is called proserpina some call it corrigiole It groweth in ways & fields/ it is a little weed with many knots  

¶ For spitting of blood. A  
¶ For then that spette blood & that vomit. The juice thereof with sweet wine or other as good.   

¶ For the sides. B  
¶ For ache in the sides or rib/ meddle the juice with oil of roses & anoint the sides.   

¶ For the breasts. C  
¶ For swelling of breasts make a plaster of this herb with butter/ & lay to them.  
¶ For itch of the legs caused of salt flew me/ wash them with water that this herb is sudden in.   

¶ For the flux. D  
¶ For flux of the womb. Take the juice of this herb alone/ or with sugar or wine & the same is good for superfluity of flowers in women.    

¶ De polytryco. Walfarne. Ca CCC.xlix.  
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POlitryke/ some call adyanthos/ & some call it earth thought. It groweth against walls/ and in humorous places.  

¶ For pain of the neck. A  
¶ For pain of the neck when it may not be stirred/ take this herb with the stalks and leaves and leek blades with eight corns of pepper/ and eight of slander stamped together with strong wine/ & drink it/ but first be bathed.   

¶ For new sores: B  
¶ The powder of this herb laid upon new sores healeth them.   

¶ For fever auge C  
¶ The water that this herb is sudden in & sugar put thereto/ is good against fever ague/ and it is put in syrup to cool.    

¶ De primula veris Prymerolles. Ca Ccc.l  
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PRimula veris is called prymerolles. Some call it saint peterwor●e Other paralysy. It is called prymerolle or primula/ of prime time/ because it beareth the first flower in prime tyme. It groweth in woods and by dyches.  

¶ For breaking of the heed. A  
¶ Against breaking of the heed or other member/ or to keep any wound fro stroke or smiting/ or for any bleeding vain. Take an ounce and a half of the juice of this herb/ and drink at morning and at evening.   

¶ For the urine. B  
¶ Also water that the rote is sudden in is good to unstop the conduits of urine.    

¶ De palacio leporis. Hare's palace Ca CCC.li.  
PAlacium leporis/ hare's palace/ is an herb like Spurge/ but it hath longer and riper leaves/ and is leaved like  depiction of plant fennel and the rote like kneholme/ and it beareth no flower/ but a reed berry like fragon but it is ronder. It is called hares palace. For if the hare come under it/ he is sure that no best can touch him. Some call it artelyke. It is good against gout artelyke if the rote be sudden in water/ or in wine/ & so taken. It is also good against let of urine/ as strangury/ and dyssury And it groweth in dark places/ in fields and woods.   

¶ De pulmonaria. Crayfery or lungwort. Ca CCC.lii.  
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PVlmonaria is an herb that hath leaves like bo●age but they be brother and longer & of stranger and werysshe savour/ & hath white speckes here & there as the lungs. This herb oft eaten & put in syrup and common drinks is good for them that hath their longs intamed or sore.   

¶ De Persicaria. Arssmert or culrage. Ca CCC.liij.  
PErsicaria is an herb that hath leaves like a peach tree/ and is called arssmert & groweth in moist places. The leaves thereof be good in medicine. Some call it sanguinary or blodeworte because it draweth blood in places that it is rubbed on. It hath a brenning virtue.  

¶ For worms in the ears. A  
¶ The juice thereof dropped in the eeres sleeth the worms in them.    

¶ De paracella. Ca CCC.liiij.  
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PAracella is an herb the leaves thereof is like the liquorice tree leaves/ and hath a round reed seed in manner as the cockle. The rote thereof is round and thick with yellow colour. It is called herb basylyke because it hath a venomous might and some say that venom is made thereof.  

¶ For fistula. A  
¶ Against fistula/ make a tent thereof & put it in the hole of the fistule/ and it will cleanse and heal it. It groweth in sandy places.    

¶ De pimpinella. self-heal or pimpernel. Ca CCC.lv.  
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PImꝑnell is an herb that groweth in sandy places/ at the foot of hills It is good to resowdre wounds/ if the powder thereof be often laid thereto.  

¶ For fistula and canker. A  
¶ Against fistula and canker it is good if it be laid thereon.   

¶ For the eyes. B  
¶ It proustyteth against dimness of the eyes if they be washed with water that it is sudden in at morning and evening.   

¶ To put out venom. C  
¶ The juice thereof drunken expulseth all venom fro the body.    

¶ De pilocella. Mows ear. Ca CCC.lvi.  
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PIlocella or mows ear is an herb that groweth on hills & hath rough leaves with long hears in them like a mous ear/ and therefore it is so named/ & it spreadeth and stretcheth on the earth. It hath virtue to restrain/ to cleanse/ and to resowdre wounds.  

¶ To sowdre wounds. A  
¶ To rejoin and sowdre wound. Mak● an ointment of the juice thereof and ware/ oil/ & terbentyne. Or put the juice thereof in new wounds   

¶ For fever quartain. B  
¶ For fever quartayne drink the juice of mows ear at the time of the access.   

¶ To know if a seek parson shall live or die. C  
¶ give them the juice thereof to drink/ & if he cast it out he shall die/ and again ward. And if the edge of a knife or other tool be steeped in the juice thereof/ it shall cut and hew all other edges.    

¶ Deprostinea. Perwynke. Ca CCC.lvii.  
PErwynke is good against flux of blood at the nose or other part of the heed.  

¶ For bleeding at the nose. A  
¶ And to staunch the said blood the leaves thereof must be holden long in the mouth.    

¶ De palma cristi. Ca CCC.lviij.  
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PAlma christi is an herb like satyrion/ the leaves be specled with colour like the sky/ and groweth in dark and moist places/ and chiefly in groves/ and hath virtue to moist/ & to make cold and is perilous to be used/ and is not put in use of medicine by cause of the mortification that it giveth.   

¶ De persicis. peaches. Ca CCC.lix.  
peaches is a fruit cold and moist in the third degree. The leaves of the tree is like to leaves of an almonds tree/ but they be somewhat longer. This fruit is principally good if they be eaten fasting The cool the burning of choleric humours  depiction of plant & comforteth the stomach that hath lost appetite/ & hath abomination of meat because of choleric humours. They be noyous to phlegmatic & choleric persons. ¶ If .v. or vi peach leaves be stamped & meddled with meal/ & be fried and eaten fasting it will cause you to be lax & go to the stole/ & will purge phlegm chiefly/ & than collar & melancholy/ & in likewise doth the kernels in the peach stones if that be stamped with warm water and drunken/ & they will purge above & beneath. And xxx or xl may be taken after the strength of them that will use it.   

¶ De oleo persicorum. Oil of peaches kernels. Ca CCC.lx.  
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Oil made of kernels of peaches is good against pain of the ears caused of cold if it be dropped therein & laid hot to them with cotton.  

¶ For worms of the womb A  
¶ Against worms of the womb/ short or long in children. Make a plaster of peach leaves with a little vinegar/ mints/ and wormwood/ and lay it to the navel. But first anoint the womb with the said oil. Isaac saith the peaches be cold and moist in the second degree/ & be very like to a fruit called crisomiles/ but they be more savoury/ and more behoveful to the stomach/ but they torn not in to so course phlegm as the crysomyles do/ how be it they must be pared/ because they torn to phlegm. peaches ought to be eaten fasting and wine of good taste drunken with them There be two manner of peaches/ for some be big and rough and be somewhat reed and some be small and light & be brown or yellow. The bigest be sweet with a little eygrenesse/ and be most moist/ and gleymy/ and therefore they torn to course phlegm and rottenness/ the which is seen if cleave such a peach and let lie a while in the air and than smell to it ye shall feel as it were a rotten savour. The juice of the bows of peaches sleeth the worms in the belly if it be drunken/ & for the same a plaster thereof laid to the navel/ and if the juice be dropped in the ears it sleeth the worms in them.    

¶ De pede columbino. doves foot. Ca CCC.lxi.  
PEs columbinus/ doves foot is an herb that is otherwise called flectir. It hath round jagged leaves & is like a doves foot/ and the stalks and leaves be  depiction of plant reedysshe/ and the flower brown/ and it stretcheth on the earth. It groweth in sandy places/ and aught to be gathered in may or in june with the leaves & dried in shadow/ and may be kept good one year. When it is found to be put in medicines as trocis/ called trocis dyacoralis the leaves must be taken with the flowers.  

¶ For swollen ballokes. A  
¶ For them that have swollen ballokes 〈◊〉 phlegm so that they shine/ stamp dou●● foot with small green lettuce/ & lay it plasterwise thereto.  
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¶ De ruta. Rue. Ca CCC.lxij.  
RVe is hot and dry in the second degree/ and is in two manners.  
That is tame & wild/ the wild is called pyganium. The leaves and sedes of rue is good in medicines/ but if ye find rue in recepts it is understand the leaves and not the sedes/ but if they be expressed/ and like wise of piganium wild rue. The seed of rue may be kept .v. years/ and the leaves one year.  

¶ For heed ache. A  
¶ For ache of the heed caused of phlegm/ and for the falling evil. Put the patient in a vain/ and than put hot rue in his nostrils & it will cause him void moche phlegm at the nose/ and will cleanse the brain/ and comfort it. The wine that rue is sudden in is good for the same.   

¶ For the falling evil. B  
¶ For the falling evil. seethe three drag●●● of juice of rue with a little wine and g●ue to the patient.   

¶ For the sight. C  
¶ For default of sight caused of a fume yt●●m●th to the eyes. Put ●ue in the vessel t●●t wine is in and let the patient drink the wine.   

¶ For tooth ache. D  
¶ For tooth ache. seethe rue in wine and lay it to the tooth. Or else take a stalk of rue & put it in the fire/ and all hot thirst it in to the tooth.   

¶ For coldness of the stomach. E  
¶ Against coldness of the stomach/ and against palsy and wrencing of the same or of the other limbs. Take wine that rue and castoreum is sudden in.   

¶ For ache of the womb. F  
¶ For ache of the womb. seethe three drams in honey/ and at the last put thereto juice of rue and use it.   

¶ For the milt. G  
¶ For opilation of the milt/ and of the liver/ and against let of urine. Take the wine that rue is sudden in with fennel roots.   

¶ For strangury & dyssury. H  
¶ Against strangury and dyssury. seethe rue and lay it to the share.   

¶ For costiveness. I  
¶ Against costiveness caused of cold/ make a little bathe in wine that rue is sudden in. And if the disease come of heat. heat vinegar and power it on rue and lay it to the share.   

¶ For flowers in women. K  
¶ For the flowers that be stopped/ and to cause the bed that the child lay in to issue Take trifera magna with juice of rue at the mouth. Or make a passaire beneath/ that is to put it in the woman's privity.   

¶ For ache outward. of the limbs. L  
¶ Against ache of the outward limbs caused of beating/ or falling lay sawge and rue upon a hot tile/ and so hot lay it to the place without any liquor.   

¶ For the eyen. M  
¶ For the web in the eyen and redness of them Confycte the powder of rue with powder of common and lay on the eyen.   

¶ For venom. N  
¶ For him that hath drunken venom/ let him drink the juice of rue. And against biting of venomous beasts lay rue to the sores.    
¶ Thus endeth the herbs beginning with. P.   

¶ And followeth the name beginning with. R.  

¶ De Rosa. Rose. Ca CCC.lxiij.  
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Osa/ the rose is cold in the first degree/ and dry in the second. As well the dry rose as the green is good in medicines. Some gather the roses when they be ripe/ but they keep not so well. They ought to be gathered when they be somewhat blown/ and that they be somewhat read within. They that have a pale/ wan/ whytysshe or black colour ought not to be put in medicine. when they be so gathered they ought to be somewhat dried in the son/ and may be kept three years. Many things is made of green roses. If it is found in recepts to take roses it is to wite dry roses/ because they powder soonest. Of green roses is made honey of roses/ sugar of roses/ syrup of roses/ & water of roses. Honey of roses is made in this wise. Take honey and seethe it well and scum it clean/ and put clean piked roses therein small chopped without barbs or knops/ and lethe them a little together: The token that they be sudden enough is when the honey is of brown colour/ & savoureth of the roses/ and is thick. It may be kept v. years. This honey of roses is of comfortable virtue by the good odour of the flowers/ and hath virtue of to cleanse of the honey And it may be given to phlegmatic and melancolic persons/ and to them that be weyked by sickness.  

¶ To cleanse the stomach. A  
¶ To cleanse the stomach of cold humours Take honey of roses that Seine is sudden in and put therein two or three corns of salt & it may be used for the above said diseases.  
¶ Sugar of roses is made thus. Take the leaves of rose flowers and shred them small and meddle them with sugar/ and beat them well together/ and put them in a vessel of glass/ and set it a month in the son/ and stir them every day. It may be kept three years/ and ye must take one pound of roses to four pound of sugar. This sugar of roses hath virtue to restrain and consort.   

¶ For the bloody flux. B  
¶ Against the bloody flux of the womb. Meddle of this sugar/ and a dram of mastic at the most/ and give to the patient and after that give him rose water or wine to drink/ or mastic that clowes hath be sudden with.   

¶ For bloody flux. C  
¶ Against other bloody flux if it be by weakness of the heart/ & disposition to swoon/ by heat that is in the membres of th● bulk. Take sugar of roses with rose water  
¶ Syrup of roses is made in this manner. The roses be stamped/ & the juice wrong out/ and in this juice is good syrup made And it is to wite that syrup of rose looseth at the beginning that it is made/ but at the last it bindeth if it be made of green roses. But that that is made of dry roses. looseth at the last. This syrup of roses hath virtue to comfort/ and to staunch.   

¶ For flux of the womb. D  
¶ Against flux of the womb and vomit Take this syrup with rain water/ or with rose water.  
¶ Oil of roses is made in divers manners Some seethe the roses in oil olive/ & strain them and keep them. Some fill a vessel of glass with roses and oil/ and seat the said vessel in a pan full of boiling water/ and so causeth the roses to boil/ and that manner is good. The other oil of green roses is made thus. Take green roses/ and put them in a vessel of glass and set it in the son xli days. And this oil is good.   

¶ For chafing of the liver. E  
¶ Against chafing of the liver/ anoint the liver therewith.   

¶ For pain of the heed. F  
¶ Against the pain of the heed caused of heat/ anoint the forehead and the temples And do thus to the faintness that weyketh the body and that cometh of weakness of the heart. But it is better to meddle the said ●yle with powder of reed sandals or white or at the least powder of roses. Also for the abovesaid diseases. Put oil of roses in the pacyentes' meat in stead of common oil and chiefly against chafing of the liver. ¶ The manner to make rose water can not be exprysed if it hath not be seen made. Some make it thus. They put roses with water in a fyole of glass/ and put the said fyole in a vessel full of seething water/ & so seethe the roses with the water/ and it be cometh reed/ and than they set the fyole in the son. And a few roses be put with moche water it is not good. Some gather the roses with the dew on them/ and put them in the fyole as it is said without any other water/ and that rose water is good. Rose water hath virtue to staunch & comfort.   

¶ For flux of the womb. G  
¶ Again flux of the womb and vomit. Take rose water alone/ or seethe mastyke● clowes therein. And it is specially good against flux of the womb caused of retentyfy virtue/ or by taking of some medicine of to sharp a lax.   

¶ For the gums. H  
¶ For the gums that been gnawn & fret with evil humours. seethe clowes in rose water/ and than dry them & make thereof powder. Than temper that powder with rose water/ or with roses/ and that is best and than dry it again in the son/ and do so three or four ytmes/ and than temper the powder again with rose water or with juice of roses/ and anoint the gums therewith/ or lay the powder on them.   

¶ For faintness of the heart. I  
¶ For them that be faint at the heart/ or be like to swoon. give them rose water to drink/ and bedew their face therewith. Rose water convenably put in coleres/ or medycyns made for the eyes/ and in ointments made for the face/ for it taketh away the spots/ & smotheth the skin/ dry roses smelled at the nose comforteth greatly the brain & the heart & quickeneth the spirits.   

¶ For flux of the womb. K  
¶ Against flux of the womb caused of choleric humour. Take rain water the roses is sudden in. And for the same is a plaster good made of roses white of an egg and vinegar/ if it be laid on the share and to the reins.   

¶ To staunch vomit. L  
¶ To staunch vomit seethe roses in vinegar & wet a sponge therein & lay it to the stomach.   

¶ For swooning. M  
¶ For swooning take the water that roses is sudden in & the powder of the same with a rear egg.   

¶ For the eyes. N  
¶ Against redness of the eyes that pricketh or brenneth. Take green roses sudden in water/ and wet them therewith.    

¶ De raffana. Rape rote. Ca CCC.lxiiij.  
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RApe is a herb that is hot & dry in the third degree and the rote is named as the herb. And the rote green or dry is better than any part of the herb for medicine. There must a hard pith be taken out of this rote like a stick and than the rote dried on a board: and it may so be keep And if ye find in the Anthidotari that is the book that all the recepts of the great & anucyent compositions be written in/ that if the rote shall be taken without saying any other thing it is to wite the rape/ but it is not to understand so in other books. It hath virtue to depart/ denied and spread humours. Of rape roots oxymell is made in this manner. Take rape roots and pike out the hard pith and put them in vinegar two or three days/ and put the third part of honey to the said vinegar/ & let it seethe. This oxymel is good for them that have the dropsy caused of cold And for them that have the quartain or quotidian fever  

¶ For fevers. A  
After that the rote is so sudden & well strained and sugar put thereto it maketh a good syrup for them that have cotidian fever caused of salt phlegm. And against fever tercian that is not very tercian/ but in manner cotidian take this syrup in the morning with warm water/ if there be any cold humours and ill digested in the stomach let the patient eat the barks or rinds of these roots steeped in vinegar and honey till he be full and drink warm water/ and put his finger or a feather in to his mouth wetre in oil to cause him vomit.   

¶ For the milt. B  
¶ For hardness of the milt & liver/ seethe this herb in wine and oil and lay to the place. If it to sudden be laid upon the share it healeth the letting of urine and spreadeth the humours that cause strangury and dyssury.    

¶ De opstriagone.  
OBstriago that men of africa call Saranniris is an herb that groweth about tombles and graves of deed folk or on walls there about.  

¶ To cleanse wounds. A  
¶ For sores full of matter and filth/ the rote of this herb put in them resowdreth and healeth them without leaving any wem or foul mark/ and it must be gathered in may.    

¶ De radice. A radysshe. Ca CCC.lxv.  
RAdysshe is an herb that is hot & dry in the second degree. The rote thereof is called Radix. And radix is found in the book called Passionari/ it is the rote This rote is hygge/ and hath virtue as the  depiction of plant rape/ and the one may be taken for the other but this is weykest in strength and virtue Isaac saith that radix is hot in the third degree/ and dry in the second/ and nourisheth less than the rape/ & the nourishing thereof is course and ill to digest/ and greweth the stomach/ the eyen/ the teeth/ the throat/ and all the parts of the matryce. But it is good for medicine/ for it cleanseth the matryce of the bladder/ and provoketh urine/ and breaketh the stone.  

¶ For the cough. A  
If it be sudden and eaten it is good against cough caused of thick humours/ and if it be eaten raw it breedeth swelling & crowling in the stomach and is vnconuenyent for it. The which is seen by the rotten bolkynges and raising of winds that they make that eateth them before meats for if they be eaten afore meats because of wind that they breed/ they life up the meat on high/ & than let it fall in to the boton of the stomach there as digestion should be made/ and so they let the meat that it may not be easily digested. But if they be taken after meat the wind that they breed gooth upward & by weight of their substance they weigh upon the meat/ and causeth it to go down to the place of digestion. And by this mean● they comfort digestion in them that kindly have winds in the stomach/ and letteth the meat to the defencyon in to the boton thereof But it noieth them that have no such● winds.    

¶ De Reubarbaro. Rewbarbe. Ca CCC.lxvi.  
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REwbarbe is hot and dry in the second degree. And there be two manners thereof. One is called Reubarbarun/ because it groweth in strange countries And barbarun latin is strange in english/ and it groweth in Ind or barbary/ & therefore it is called rhubarb. The other is rewponticum/ because it groweth in an isle called ponticum. Or because it hath a pontic savour or a taste somewhat sharp or eager/ and that is called rewpontyke. Some say that rhubarb is the rote of a tree/ and is found of a light substance in manner of a toad stole that groweth on trees and drieth as deed wood/ and they say troth/ rhubarb is to be chosen that is in a manner heavy and not full of holes/ & when it is broken there is in it as it were veins divided in divers parts and colours as white/ brown/ and yellow/ and contrariwise/ that that is light and full of holes and hard as wood. etc. & staineth not as saffron when it is chawed. It may be kept good three years and no more/ & it hath might to purge choleric humours and to unstop the conduits of urine.  

¶ Against fevers composed of two fevers. A  
¶ Against fevers composed of two fevers together/ whereof one hath the access/ and the other is continued specially against two manners. Of the which one is when it is continued because of phlegm/ and a tertian caused of choleric humour. The other manner to the contrary when one is continued caused of choleric humour/ & a quotidian of phlegm therewith. For these two manners. Take the sedes of melons/ cytrulles/ gourds/ cowgourdes/ or cowcomers and seethe them in water and in the same broth put cassia fistula/ and tamaryns/ and strain it all/ & in the straining stepe two drams of rhubarb a night/ and in the morning strain it and use it/ ¶ To women with child/ and old women stepe vi drams of rhubarb one night in violet syrup/ and give the straining thereof to the patient in the morning. It is also convenably put in syrup for fever agues. And put it at the beginning that the syropes is sudden in/ but they fail the more/ for the syrup is not of so great virtue as when it is put in at the end of the seething/ and than strained. And an ounce of rhubarb sufficeth for a li of syrup.   

¶ For chafing of the liver. B  
¶ For the chafing of the liver/ and opilation of the milt caused of humour take rhubarb with warm water. But it is better to meddle it with a medicine called trifera sarazenica/ and used with juice of endive.    

¶ De Rubea. Madder. Ca CCC.lxvij.  
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RVbea is an herb hot and dry in the second degree. The is the more and the less. Rubea the more hath greater leaves and is of great virtue/ and is the herb that warence or Madder is made of & therefore it is called the dyers rubea. The less rubea hath smaller leaves/ and smaller virtue and sharp/ and is like the less● consolida and is not sharp. Rubea hath virtue to comfort because it hath somedeal of substance stiptic/ bitter/ and binding and also openeth the conduits of urine by the substance thereof.  

¶ For weakness of the stomach. A  
¶ Against feebleness of the stomach/ & liver/ and when the stomach is to be loosed drink the vine that the rote of rubea and mastic is sudden in. For the same Make a plaster of the powder of the rote thereof dried with mastic/ wax/ and oil.   

¶ For the flowers. B  
¶ For to cause the flowers flow in women and to cause the deed child/ or the bed that a child lay in to come out. Take the fattest rote of this herb that ye can find and scrape it clean without/ & take a piece thereof of the length of a finger/ & anoint it with honey/ and strew powder of squamony thereon/ & tie a thread at the one end and put it in to the conduit/ and at time convenient draw it out/ & she shall find ease. The water that it is sudden in staineth the hears brown or reed.    

¶ De Porro. A leek. Ca CCC.lxviij▪  
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POrrum a leek is hot in the middle of the third degree/ and dry in the end of the same. That it is dry is known by the virtue stiptic thereof/ for it stauncheth the blood of the nose. And it is not good in meat/ for it noyeth the stomach & causeth swelling & wind/ and pricketh & gnaweth the sinews of the stomach by the sharpness. It hath ꝓprete to cause black fume/ that causeth melancholy. The which fume when it mounteth dimmeth the sight/ & therefore they that use lekes must use porcelain/ or endive/ or other cold thing after them/ to delay the heats of them/ or seethe them in water and change the water in seething two or three times and be eaten in the foresaid manner. And though it be not good in meat it is good in medicines. For if it be eaten it cleanseth the conduits of the lungs and gross humours/ and openeth the opilation of the liver.  

¶ For bleeding at the nose. A  
¶ The juice of lekes meddled with oil of roses and vinegar and put in to the nostrils/ stauncheth the bleeding of the nose if he that bleedeth be of cold complexion ● nature.   

¶ For the eeres. B  
¶ The juice dropped in the ears appeseth the pain comen of cold cause.   

¶ For hemorrhoids. C  
¶ Lekes sudden in water and stamped laid to hemorrhoids abateth the swelling/ and if they be caused of moisture it spreadeth them.   

¶ For the womb. D  
¶ The heeds of leeks sudden in oil of sweet almonds/ or oil of cockle called zizanim/ loseth the womb and keepeth it moist And it is also good against ache of the belly called colic caused of humours. Sede of lekes is of stronger action and virtue than the heeds.   

¶ For blood of the breast. E  
¶ Two drams of lekes seed and myrte stauncheth the blood that cometh out of the breast by spitting/ howbeit it is grievous to the teeth and throat.   

¶ For hemorrhoids. F  
¶ If the sedes be brent and meddled with cress seed it is good for them that have hemorrhoids/ and wasteth the wind in the bowels or guts but it bindeth the womb ¶ The wild leek is hot in the fourth degree/ & dry in the third. It dissolveth and spreadeth course and tycke humours/ & unstoppeth the opilation of the conduits of the body/ and causeth the flowers in women to flow.   

¶ For flux. G  
¶ The roots or beards of leek dried on a hot tile/ and the smoke taken beneath is good for to close the flux of the belly. Probatum est. And the said fume causeth the flowers to flow in woman.   

¶ For sinews. H  
¶ The beards or roots is good for ache of the sinews if they be rubbed therewith.   

¶ For biting of a scorpion. I  
¶ And when it is chopped or stamped. It is good against biting of a scorpion/ if it be laid thereto.    

¶ De piganio. Wild rue. Ca CCC.lxix▪  
RVe of the field or wild rue is called Piganium/ and it groweth in rudges stony places. It is good against dimness of the eyen/ sudden in old white wine. And for the same the juice thereof meddled with juice of fennel and white honey/ & a colery made thereof.  

¶ To cause urine. A  
¶ To cause urine and to piss well. Take ix. heeds of this rue stamped and given to drink with three ounces and a half of water ix days.     


De roar marino. Rosmary. Ca CCC.lxx.  
ROsmary is hot and dry. But the auctors tell not in what degree. It is a herb that groweth in manner of a tree  depiction of plant And it is not properly called rosmary. but ros marinus as it were dew of the see for commonly it groweth in places by the see side The flowers and the leaves be good it medicine. And the flowers ought to be dried a little in the son when they be gathered and they may be kept a year and the leaves like wise. The flower of rosmary is called anthos/ & of it an electuary is named dy●●thos. The herb thereof is called libramondos/ or dendrolibanas. Some call it ●●●●tis/ other ycterycon/ and other lumm. When anthos or rosmary is found in recepts/ it is the flower/ and if ye find libramandoes/ or dendrolybanoes it is the leaves. Rosmary hath virtue to comfort by the good odour. And to waste and cleanse humours and to put them out by subtle vapour.  

¶ For the heart. A  
¶ Against disease of the heart and disposition to fall in swoon. Take the electuary dyanthos with wine. Or else seethe the flowers of Rosmary in wine or rose water/ and give it to the patient.  
¶ Another remedy is. Make juice of rosmary leaves meddled with rose water with a little juice of panaie/ and make a syrup thereof which shall be good if some of the bone in the heart of an heart be put thereto.   

¶ For weakness of the brain. E  
¶ Against weakness of the brain and coldness thereof. seethe rosmarin in wine and let the patient receive the smoke at his nose and keep his heed warm.   

¶ For the throat. F  
¶ The wine that rosmary is sudden in drieth the moistness of the throat if gargarism be made thereof.   

¶ For the stomach. G  
¶ Against coldness of the stomach and to comfort digestion. Take dyanthes or the wine that rosmary or mastic is sudden in   

¶ For the womb. H  
¶ Against ache of the womb causeth of wind. Take the wine that rosmary and common is sudden in.   

¶ For the urine. I  
¶ Against let of the urine. seethe the leaves and flowers in wine & lay to the share.   

¶ For the matryce. K  
¶ To cleanse the matryce/ and to help conception/ make baths in the neither parts with water that rosmary is sudden in. Some women seethe the flowers in oil/ and use it beneath.  
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De rubo. a brece or bramble. Ca CCC.lxxi  
RVbus is a bramble/ it is hot and dry. But Constantine saith that the crops been stiptic and be good against brenning and hot apostumes/ & therefore he seemeth that it is cold and dry.  

¶ For the eyen. A  
¶ Against redness of the eyen. Stamp the buds or crops with white of an egg & saffron to the eyen.   

¶ For all redness. B  
¶ Against all redness melt wax & oil of roses with the crops of briars & make an ointment with oil of yalkes of eggs which is made thus: seethe eggs in water till they be hard/ & take the yolks only & set them over the fire in a pan & stir them till oil come out/ but ye must have many yalkes for there cometh but little oil.   

¶ For hot apostumes. C  
¶ Against hot apostumes stamp the crops of briars with rose water & lay to them.   

¶ For bloody flux. D  
¶ Against bloody flux of the womb/ minister the juice of the crops of briars with a prysyn in a clystre.    

¶ De rodalia. Ca CCC.lxxij.  
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ROdale is an herb that is like rape in leaves/ and hath like savour. but the leaves be more whytysshe/ and it hath a less rote. It is hot and dry/ and groweth in ways and hard places and not watery if a knife or other edge tool be steeped in the juice of this herb it will cut all other edges.  

¶ For worms in the belly of children. A  
¶ For worms in the belly of children/ make a plaster of the leaves of this herb stamped and laid to the belly.    

¶ De Riso. Rys. Ca CCC.lxxiij.  
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Rise is cold and dry. It is a grain like wheet/ and therefore some say that it is a kind of wheet. when it is gathered it must be stamped and bet and a little water put thereto and so the husk will fall of and the grain be white.  

¶ For flux of the womb. A  
¶ It is good against flux of the womb in what manner so ever it be/ & against wrenching and ache thereof. And it must be sudden in almond milk with good quantity of sugar/ & so it feedeth well and bindeth.   

¶ For flux of the womb. B  
¶ Against flux of the womb caused of choleric humours and against bloody flux make a clyster. Take two ounces of ries/ of tragacanth/ of gum arabic/ bull armenyke of each half an ounce/ and than ministered. But it is better to have a laxing clystre afore/ made of barley and oil. Galen saith that the nature of ries is hot in the first degree and dry in the second/ and it is taken in divers manners/ and diversly changed in operations. Some grind it and make meal thereof/ & seethe it as wheet and make pottage. In that manner is good for them that have pain in the stomach and bowels. Other seethe it with milk or oil of almonds and in that manner it loseth the virtue to bind. But it is of good nourishing and breedeth good blood/ and increaseth natural seed.   

¶ To cleanse the face. C  
¶ If the face be rubbed with rise or the water that it is sudden it taketh the pimples away and cleanseth the skin of spots.    

¶ De robellijs. Ca CCC.lxxiiij.  
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RObelles is certain sedes that be cold in the first degree/ and mean between dry and moist. Their husks is hard to digest and stiptic/ and therefore if they be husked they breed good blood & cause no winds as beans do.  

¶ For them that spette blood. A  
¶ They be good for them that spette blood out of the breast/ if they be sudden and steeped in wine/ and stay broken membres and suageth the ache if they be laid plaster wise on them.   

¶ For fevers: B  
¶ If they be sudden with barley and arache or betes they be good against fever caused of blood of choleric humour.   

¶ For the flux. C  
¶ And who so will staunch flux must seethe them in water with brancha/ porcelayne pomegarnettes and oil/ and so eat them    

¶ De Rapiastro. Wild rapes. Ca CCC.lxxv.  
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RApistre is an herb cold and dry and is called wild rapes because the leaves and sedes be like rape leaves and sedes. But the rote is not like it.  

¶ For the lungs. A  
¶ The rote thereof is good to cleanse the lungs. If it be sudden with liquorice/ and the water drunken that it is sudden in.   

¶ For breaking of sinews. B  
¶ If it be laid on brusures or concussyon of sinews it healeth them easily.    

¶ De rapa. Rapes. Ca CCC.lxxvi.  
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RApa rapes is hot in the second degree/ and moist in the first. It nourisheth more abundantly than any other rote/ but it is hard to digest/ and breedeth tender flesh by the wind that it causeth.  

¶ To move lechery. A  
¶ Also it moveth lechery/ if it be first sudden in one water and than in an other/ the hard substance thereof is made tender/ & the nourishing thereof is between good and evil. And if it be ill sudden it is hard to digest/ and breedeth wind/ & stoppeth the veins and other conduits. therefore when they be sudden so in two waters they be sudden again with fat flesh.   

¶ For podagre. B  
¶ If they that he podagres wash their feet in water that it is sudden in it apealeth the ache. And is good against venom.    
¶ Thus endeth the herbs that begin with. R.   

¶ And beginneth of them beginning with. S.  

¶ De spicnardo. Spyknarde or spike. Ca CCC.lxxvij.  
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SPyke is hot in the first degree and dry in the second There be two manners of spike/ one is spikenard/ & the other spike celtyk Some say the spikenard is the flower of a tree/ but it is not so. It is found about the rote of a tree. And it ought to be chosen that hath a soft sharp savour and somewhat eager and a brown colour. Or it be put in medicine there there must be a white part taken out thereof/ and that that is black without nigh to the rote. It may be kept ten years in a dry place. Spyke celtyke is like to spikenard and groweth toward septentrion & is white/ but saluinca i caltrappe is put in stead thereof. Black spike with colour as earth ought not to be put in medicine. It hath virtue to comfort for the good odour thereof to unstop and is diuretic.  

¶ For the heart. A  
¶ Against disease of the heart or swooning. Tempre the pacyentes wine with water that spikenard is sudden in/ and of the same water with sugar make syrup/ and let the patient use it. And for weakness of the brain/ put it in the nose to smell.   

¶ For cold rheum. B  
¶ Against cold rheum. seethe powder of spikenard in oil of musk or comyne oil/ and put it in the nostrils with the fingers end.   

¶ For the hearing. C  
¶ This oil is good against thickness of hearing or deefnesse caused of cold or filth of the ears that remaineth after apostumes.   

¶ For the gomes. D  
¶ For rottenness of the gomes lay the powder thereof on them.   

¶ For the matryce. E  
¶ To cleanse the matryce and to cause menstrue to flow/ and to help conception. Make a little bag of a finger length & fill it with powder of spikenard/ and let it boil long in oil of musk or common oil/ and let the woman put it in her natural concavity.   

¶ For costiveness. F  
¶ Against costiveness caused of cold humour/ lay the powder of spikenard upon cotton/ and lay it to the fundament while it is out.    

¶ De solatro. Petymorel. or night shade Ca CCC.lxxviij.  
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SOlatro is the less morel. It is cold and dry in the second degree and it openeth partly the conduits of the body/ and is diuretic while it is green both in the leaves and fruit. And when it is dry it hath no virtue.  

¶ For the liver. A  
¶ Against opilation of the liver/ and of the milt/ and against jaundice that cometh because the ways of the liver and gall is stopped/ the juice of nightshade drunken is good/ and the juice made in syrup with sugar. Or better take two ounces of the juice with .v. drams of rhubarb.   

¶ For the stomach: B  
¶ For apostumes in the stomach/ in the liver or bowels. Take the juice of morel with ptyfame or barley.   

¶ For the liver. C  
¶ Against chafing or heat of the liver. Weet a cloth many times double in the juice and lay it to the liver. And such a cloth so wete is good to lay on a podagr●s hot foot. Or bruise the herb and lay it often thereto.   

¶ For hot apostumes. D  
¶ Against hot apostumes at the beginning. And withdraw the matter bruise this herb and lay on them.    

¶ De solatro rustice. Dwale or more morel. Ca CCC.lxxix  
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SOlatrum rusticum is the more morel. The right name is alcate▪ the fruit thereof is like a cherry and is closed in a reed web or skin.  

¶ For the bladder. A  
¶ The seed thereof is principally good against letting of urine/ and is also good against the stone in the bladder/ if the wine that the sedes thereof be sudden in is drunken fasting.   

¶ For weals. B  
¶ For children that have weals or pimples about their bodies.  or wash them ix days with water that it is sudden in.    

¶ De serapino. Serapyn. Ca CCC.lxxx.  
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SErapyn is hot & dry in the third degree It is the gum of a tree that groweth beyond the see and in Grece/ out of the which cometh an humour that hardeneth to the tree in such manner that sometime it holdeth with the bark. It may be kept long in a dry place. It hath virtue to divide and spread humours. The smoke of Serapin with a goats horn is good against the s●omerynge evil and causeth to snele/ and cleanseth the stomach of phlegmatic moistness.  

¶ For the breathe. A  
¶ Three drams taken against let of the breathe caused of moistness is good/ but or it be taken it beheveth to prepare the matryce. Another remedy is. Take gencyan sudden in a ptysame of barley/ and strained and in the straining put serapyn and give it to the patient.   

¶ For the matryce. B  
¶ A suppository made of serapyn and put in the natural place of a woman causeth the stopped flowers to flow/ and causeth the deed child to come out of the mother with the bed if it be abiden within after the childing as Dyascorydes saith. The smoke of serapyn taken at the mouth and nostrils is good against suffocation or choking of the matryce that is when the matryce haileth the vppe● members in such wise that she is as deed.   

¶ For the milt. C  
¶ Against hardness of the milt. Make a ciroine/ or plaster of serapyn wet all night in vinegar/ and in the morning strain it and put thereto oil and wax/ & it is marvelous good.    

¶ De semper viva Howsleke or selfegrene Ca CCC.lxxxi.  
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Semper viva always quick/ because it is ever green. It is an herb that is called also jombarde. Some call it abzo The greeks call it centros/ & other engini It groweth upon houses. It is cold in the third degree and dry in the first. While it is green/ it hath great virtue/ and none when it is dry. It hath virtue to cool. This herb stamped and laid to hot apostumes or they be form is good but when they be form it noyeth.  

¶ For scalding. A  
¶ Against scalding of fire or water make an ointment of the juice thereof with oil rolate and wax. But this ointment ought not to be laid to the three first days/ but hot things that the hear may depart. At the beginning anoint it with soap/ & than with this ointment to delay the pain   

¶ For bleeding at the nose. B  
¶ Against bleeding of the nose that cometh by ebulision or boiling of the blood in the liver and veins. In summer make bends wet in the juice with rose water/ and lay them to the forehead/ temples/ and to the liver. And this auctor saith that he hath seen the experience that it is very profitable to weet it in water only.   

¶ For the eyes. C  
¶ Against the heat & redness of the eyes and against fiery apostum●s/ and against hot podagre/ this herb is good stamped & laid to alone/ or a plaster made thereof with meal.   

¶ For the heedache. D  
¶ For the heedache. A noint the heed and foreheed with the juice thereof meddled with oil rosate. The juice thereof is good for them that have the jaundices caused of heat of the l●uer. And sleeth worms of the womb. And stauncheth flowers in women if they flow to much.    

¶ De Sulphur. Brimstone. Ca CCC.lxxxij.  
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SVlphre is hot and dry. It is a manner of earth that by the action & working of strength of heat is turned to the nature of Brimstone. And the parties of the water and earth be changed in to smokes. There is quick brimstone that is such as it cometh out of the earth. The other is deed brimstone or quenched that is arrayed by craft in this manner. It is sudden in a quill of iron. The brimstone is to be chosen that is green or brownysshe/ drawing to green. For the white or brown/ or that that hath a deadly pale colour ought not to be put in medicine. It may be kept four years/ and than it waxeth nought by the strength of the heat thereof and turneth to white ashes. It hath virtue to spread course humours and to waste them.  

¶ For the breathe. A  
¶ Against letting of the breathe that hath hold long space caused of humours/ take three dram of the powder thereof with a rear egg. But first it behoveth to prepare & make ready the matter to come out by soupling and degesting ointments laid to the share.  
Or else lay brimstone on hot coals/ and let the patient receive the smoke through a quill in to his mouth and hold his heed downward/ because it shall not descend in to the breast/ for it may blemish the disease.   

¶ For the palsy B  
¶ Against palsy/ or percussyon/ podagre or other gout/ and the falling evil and for scabs. Take oil sicionun that is made of juice of cucumbers meddled with wax & powder of brimstone/ and white peleter and make an ointment/ and as soon as the powdres be in take it fro the fire/ and so use it. But for the falling evil anoint the ridge of the patients back all along   

¶ For scabs. C  
¶ Against the scab. Soak lytargye in vinegar/ and put brimstone thereto with nut oil and make thereof an ointment.    

¶ De Sileos'. Ca CCC.lxxxiij.  
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Sileos' or siler montanun. It is hot and dry in the third degree. It is a seed that may be kept three years. It hath virtue to open the conduits & to spread humours.  

¶ For the breathe. A  
¶ For let of the breath caused of cold humours. Take the juice that sileos is sudden in with dry fygues.   

¶ For the liver. B  
¶ Against stopping of the liver & milt and of the reins, and against let of urine. Take the wine that it is sudden in.   

¶ For the flowers. C  
¶ To cause menstrue to flow/ let the woman wash her with wine that it is sudden in. The powder thereof drunken with white wine and sugar cleareth the sight.    

¶ De Saponarya Crowsoppe. Ca CCC.lxxxiiij.  
SAponaria/ burit/ herba fullonum herb phylyp/ all is one. It hath many names. it is called saponary fullers grass/ buryt/ and crowsope. This book speaketh not of the virtue/ howbeit it is good for venom.   

¶ De Sanguine draconis. Dragon's blood Ca CCC.lxxxv▪  
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SAnguis draconis is dry in the third degree. Some say that it is the juice of an herb/ but it is not so. It is the juice of a tree that groweth in Ind. And is called dragons blood because it is like such blood. That is to be chosen that is bright within and shining as vermyllon or a thick juice. It may be kept twenty years/ and hath virtue to restrain.  

¶ For bleeding at the nose. A  
¶ Against bleeding of the nose/ put the powder thereof in the nose and wring the nose thrills that the powder may cleave to the vain that is open/ & lay a plaster thereof to the forehead/ and on the temples/ with glayre of an egg and rose water.   

¶ For spitting of blood. B  
¶ For them that spette blood caused in the bulk. Make pylles of the powder thereof and of gum arabic/ and ptysame that dragagant hath be melted in and let the patient hold it on the tongue/ and when it is all relented swallow them.   

¶ For the flowers. C  
¶ suppository made of dragon's blood with juice of sanguynary/ restraineth the flowers that been to superflue if it be put in the privity.  
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¶ Squinanto. camels straw. Ca CCC.lxxxvi.  
SQuinant is an herb that is called camels straw. because camels do eat it. It is hot and dry in the third degree/ and is found in araby and astryke and it may be kept ten years. Suinant is to be chose that hath white or yellow colour and that that is hard as wood is nought It hath might to purge flewmes/ and is not put alone in medicines but is meddled with other things purging phlegm as polypody/ and coloquintida.  

¶ For the flowers. A  
¶ Dyascorides saith that if squinant be sudden in wine/ and is laid to the membres genytalles/ it causeth the flowers in women that is stopped to flow and cleanseth the matryce and openeth the let of urine.    

¶ De semine napei. mustered sede. Ca CCC.lxxxvii.  
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Senevey is hot and dry in the middle of the fourth degree. The herb is not put in medicine but the seed/ & may be kept .v. years. When napei is found in recepts it is the seeds of seveuey. It hath virtue to spread humours.  

¶ For the tongue. A  
¶ Against percussion of the tongue. Chaw this seed & hold it long under the tongue.   

¶ For the membres. B  
¶ For percussyon of all other membres. Put this seed in a little bag and seethe bag and all in wine and lay it to the sore place.   

¶ For apostumes. C  
¶ For apostumes stamp the herb with porks grease and lay to them.   

¶ For the fevers. D  
¶ A bath made to the neither parts with water that these sedes is sudden in causeth the flowers to flow/ and openeth strangury and dyssury.   

¶ For the palsy. E  
¶ The herb sudden in wine & only is good against palsy/ and let of the urine.   

¶ For the anela. F  
¶ The wine that the seed is sudden in with dragagant is good to dry the humydytees of the anela or briyne and about the throat if a gargarism thereof be made.  
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¶ De Sarcocolla. Ca CCC.lxxxviij.  
SArcocolle is hot and dry in the third degree. It is the gum of a tree that groweth beyond the see. Sarcocolle is to be chosen that is white and gommy and is in great lompes. That that is in powder is nought/ for it is countrefayt/ & falsed with meddling of other powdres.  

¶ For bleeding at the nose. A  
¶ A plaster made of idol with white of an egg and laid to the temples is good for bleeding at the nose and against humours that fall in to the eyes.   

¶ For the web in the eye. B  
¶ The powder of sarcocol confyct with rose water and dried in the son wasteth the web in the eye and cleareth the sight   

¶ For costiveness. C  
¶ The powder of sarcocol laid on hot coals and the smoke taken beneath is good for costiveness.    

¶ De stycados' citrine Ca CCC.lxxxix.  
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Sticados' citrine is called barba iovis or arbidos/ or aragijs/ and hercules grass/ and is hot and dry in the second degree. It beareth a flower in prymtyme/ and than should be gathered. and it may be kept a year. It spreadeth and wasteth humours and hath diuretic virtue/ that is it openeth the conduits of liver & of urine  

¶ For the bulk and the stomach. A  
¶ The wine that it is sudden in with dragagant warmeth the parties of the bulk and cleanseth them. Also it warmeth the stomach and the bowels. And it is also good for the colic/ and to open the milt. And against let of urine/ be it strangury or dyssury. There be two kinds of stechados that is to wite arabic and citrine/ and both of them be appropried to the sinews and the brain.    

¶ De stycados' Arabyke. Ca CCC.xc.  
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STicads arabic is an herb that groweth in sharp places & hills and hath leaves like rosmary/ but they be whiter/ & hath a flower like a tuste which hath good a odour with a little bitterness therewith. The flower is better in medicines than the leaves/ and so it ought to be taken in recepts/ and the flower ought to dried and may be kept a year. It is hot and dry in the second degree/ & because it hath bitterness & also pontycite & is eager it is comfortable/ & resolutif & openeth the conduits of the body/ and putteth out rottenness and comforteth the heart and membres of the bulk. but it grieveth the stomach that hath moche choleric humour/ & therefore the stomach must be purgeth or it be used.  

¶ For the sinews & joints. A  
¶ The oil that is made of the flowers▪ is of the virtue of camomile to all aches of the sinews & joints caused of moistness and cold.   

¶ For the brain. B  
¶ It is good also for them that be dyssy or amazed or that fall and taketh away all diseases caused of stopping and heaviness of the brain. And openeth the opilation of the milt and liver caused of cold humours. And is good against fever quartain and long diseases.    

¶ De satirione. Gangelon or hare bollocks. ¶ Ca CCC.xci.  
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SAtirion is an herb otherwise called priapismus/ guyos/ eucarion/ sarapias/ orris/ testiculis leporis/ neme/ and baram It groweth on hills & plain fields/ and is hot and dry in the third degree/ and it hath virtue to draw far things/ and therefore it helpeth lechery/ and them that be goutty/ & satirine ought to be put in medicine. At the rote be two things as ballokes that be good in medicines/ when they be green they be confyct with honey/ and aideth lechery/ but better it is confict them with dates/ pignons and honey.  

¶ For the web in the eye: A  
¶ For the web in the eye. Make a colyre and put it in the eye & it will take it away And also the spots that abide after sores if the rote be stamped and laid to it.    

¶ De Cichorea. Chycory. Ca CCC.xcii.  
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SPonsa solis is chycory. It is cold and moist in the second degree. It is called incuba/ solsequium/ elitropium/ emachates/ and vertonon. It groweth in unlabored places and fields/ & it seemeth that it hath as it were a divine virtue/ and followeth the son. It hath crooked and writhen stalks/ and the flower is of the colour of the sky. When the son riseth this flower openeth/ and it closeth when the son gooth down.  

¶ For venom. A  
¶ This herb eaten is good against venom and so is the juice if it be drunken/ and also against biting of venomous be stamped and laid thereon.   

¶ For the liver. B  
¶ The juice openeth the opilation of the liver/ and milt caused of heat.    

¶ De strofularia. Ca CCC.xciij.  
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STrofulary is an herb the groweth in steadfast places and springeth in summer and primetimes/ and spreadeth and stretcheth on the earth. ¶ The rote of this herb dried and put to powder with honey maketh an electuary that is good to eat against kernels & the kings evil taken fasting in the morning and evening/ & let the patient fast tylk ix. of the clock or make small wreaths or frytures & drink half a pint of good white wine after it   

¶ De spodio. ivory. Ca CCC.xciiij.  
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SPodium is the bone of an olyphant brent. It is hot in the second degree and dry in the third. The elephant hath bones that be as hard and stiff as teeth/ & they be not brent but many thing he made of them as combs and tablets. & there be other bones full of marough that he brent and is called spodium. It is countrefayt with dogs bones/ and sometime with brent marble/ but that is to h●uy. Spodium is chosen that is not to light & is white. It is not very dear/ and yet it hath great virtue. It is put in syrup to refresse.  

¶ For bloody flux. A  
¶ The powder thereof drunken with juice of plantain is good against bloody flux of the womb/ and for them that spette blood ¶ Powdre thereof put in the nostrils stauncheth bleeding. And it quencheth and delayeth thirst.    

¶ De strucio. Ca CCC.xcv.  
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STrucium is an herb that groweth in rudges and stony places nigh to the see. And hath white leaves in manner of cotton or wool and is better green than dry and if the stalk thereof be wet in oil it brenneth like a candle: It is called wild cowls in french/ and some call it bratica This herb is hot and dry in the second degree. If semine caliculi is found in recepts/ it is the seed of this herb.  

¶ To spread humours. A  
¶ The juice of this herb is called Mabathematycon/ and hath virtue to spread ●umouts and to divide/ and the leaves ought to be put in salves and ointments.   

¶ For the palsy. B  
¶ Against palsy or lameness if it be in the tongue or other parts lay the leaves sudden thereon.   

¶ For lethargy. C  
¶ Against lethargy blow the powder of the seed in to the nose/ or else seethe the seed thereof and juice of rue in strong vinegar and rub the hinder part of the heed therewith.   

¶ For the urine. D  
¶ A little bathe made of the leaves in wine sudden unstoppeth the conduits of urine/ and causeth menstrue to run.  
¶ A plaster of the leaves sudden in wine & wile provoketh urine if it be laid about the yard/ and the yard put in oil of strucium. And in that wy●e the author of this book/ healed the stopping of urine. The juice of this herb ought be wrungen out & dried in the son/ and so hardened may be kept two years.    

¶ De caude stinceris. Ca CCC. xcvi.  
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STinces be small fishes that be found in fresh waters like to lyzardes and be found in the loud of pool/ but they that come from beyond the see be better/ they be hot and dry. And they grieve the body sore for they be of to great violence. It the most take but .v. drams three is sufficient enough. And take them with dyamargariton/ or dyapenidon/ or use them with honey. They be put in dyaratirion that is ordained therefore.   

¶ Scordeon. Wild garlic. Ca CCC.xcvij.  
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SCordeon is wild garlic. It is hot and dry in the third degree. It ought to be gathered when it beareth flowers. The wine that it is sudden in cleanseth the bulk of phlegm.  

¶ For the stomach. A  
¶ Against pain of the stomach and entrails caused of wind/ and to open the pipes of the liver and milt caused of cold and against letting of urine the said decoction is good.   

¶ For old sores. B  
¶ To resowdre an old sore/ lay it thereon and upon the breaking of the muscles.    

¶ De sapone. Sope. Ca CCC.xcviij.  
soap is hot and dry/ and it is of three sorts. One is called Sarazyns' soap. The other is called Iewes soap or spartaryne because the jews wash them therewith. And the other is called french soap. Sarazyns' soap is made of a lie called capitellium and oil olive sudden together till it be thick.   soap-maker (?) at work 
The french soap is made of the same capitellium and with sheeps suet & is white And the Spartarent or jews soap is made of saracens with many other things Capytell that these sopes be made of a lie made of ashes that unslecked or quick lime is steeped in three days and than str●yned. And that that cometh first out is capitellium. Salt of turkey is good against scalding of fire or water if it be laid anon upon the place/ and if lie three hours thereon to put out the vapours/ and heat from the scalding. And ye ought wite the hot things ought to be laid on burnings. For cold things would restrain the heat/ and so the brenning should be greater. & when the soap hath lain so on wash the place with warm water/ and lay to things that appeaseth the smart and healeth the sore. This sarazyns' salt is good for them that hath their hears unstopped at the end if they be anointed therewith. Also it smotheth and suppleth the skin/ and maketh apostumes ready to ripe and to break. the french soap is good also against scalding and against the scab/ but not so good as the other/ and it whyteth more the face than the other/ if it be washed therewith  

¶ For tetters' ●  
¶ The jews soap or spartarent is good against tetters if the place is anointed the● with/ & it may be put alone or with powder of orpiment/ but the place must be first washed with warm water.    

¶ De sperago. Sperage. Ca CCC.xcix.  
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SPerage is hot & dry in the third degree/ & is called anasperage. Sperage hath small tender things the which is a delicate meat. And if they be anointed with water alone it is good against stopping of the liver and milt/ and ylyake passion. Also the wine or water that the seed is sudden in is good for the same things/ and the seed may be kept one year. and if sperage be written in recepts it is the sedes.  

¶ For tooth ache. A  
¶ For the tooth ache hold the rote of sperage a great while in thy mouth. And for them that have swollen feet/ the wine that powder thereof is drunken with healeth them.    

¶ De Savina. Savyn. Ca CCCC.  
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SAuyne is an herb in manner of a tree & is commonly had in religious cloisters/ and hath leaves like ewe/ it is hot and dry in the third degree. Some call it blancheos/ vilopapilion/ papition/ chatacieron/ and herb sabyne. The leaves been good in medicine/ and may be kept two years.  

¶ For the stomach A  
¶ The decoction is good for pain of the stomach. It is good against let of urine and ache of the belly called colyke. For it is dyurityke/ and spreadeth course humours & winds. It is good to cause a child come out of his mothers womb.   

¶ For costiveness. B  
¶ Against costiveness. seethe it in wine and vinegar and take the fume at the fundament. And a little bathe is good for the same laid to the reins and share.    

¶ De Sarifraga. Sarifrage. Ca CCCC. i.  
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SArifrage is so called because it braketh the stone/ it is hot and dry in the third degree. Some call it a maucus/ other aprogio/ & other aspiron. The wine that the rote is sudden in is good against let of urine and the stone/ & against all pain of the womb called ylyake passion. The dry powder thereof is good against the said diseases/ and it may be taken with a rear egg or otherwise. And if ye find saxifrage in recepts it is the rote. But when ye find lytospermatis it is the seed. The seed and the rote may be kept two years in virtue.   

¶ De Sale. Salt. Ca CCCC. two.  
Salt is hot and dry in the second degree. It is good for vomit/ and it ought to be broken and sudden in vinegar to drink/ and vinegar and oil put thereto. And when it is drunken put your finger or a feather in your mouth.  

¶ For winds. A   man holding a basket of something (salt?) out to a woman holding a sack or vessel 
¶ For all pain caused of wind. roast salt and put it in a bag and lay it to the p●ace. Of salt and honey is made a suppository or pylles to cause laxes. And the honey must be sudden till it be all black/ and than put powder of salt in to it.  
¶ Confyete salt with honey/ and in the same water put gold that is to white/ an it will recover colour.    

¶ De sale Armeniaco. Salt armeniake Ca CCCC. iij.  
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Salted armenyake is hot and dry in the ford degree. It is called armenyake because it is found in armeny. And some say that it is made of an herb/ and it may well be/ as nitre is made. It ought to be chosen that is white/ and that hath a sharp savour more than saltness. And it ought not to be put alone in medicines but always with other things.  

¶ To cleanse the face. A  
¶ It is good to take spots of women's faces in this wise. Take two parts of salt and one of camfere meddled and confyet together with rose water/ and set it divers times to dry in the son/ & put rose water thereto/ & do so two or three days & anoint the face.   

¶ For tetters. B  
Meddle the powder of salt armonyake with soap and therewith rub tetters.    

¶ De Sisimbro: Ca CCCC. iiij.  
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SIsimbrum is hot and dry in the third degree/ and is of two sorts One is wild/ and another tame. When wild sisimbrum is found in recepts it is to wite calamynt. It hath virtue to unstop the conduits of urine/ and to depart and spread humours.  

¶ For pain of the bulk. A  
¶ Against the pain of the bulk. Make a manner of pottage of barley with water/ & put powder of this herb thereto and give it to the patient.   

¶ For rheum. B  
¶ Against rheum chafe the leaves in a vessel without any liquor/ and put them in a bag and lay to the heed.   

¶ For the stomach. C  
¶ The wine that this herb is sudden in is good against pain of the stomach/ and costiveness. And causeth the flowers to run and help to conceive/ & cleanse the matryce And so doth the water that it is sudden in.    

De sale gemma. Salt gem. Ca CCCC. v.  
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Salted gem is so called because it is bright as a gem or a precious stone. It is hot and dry. It is a vain of earth that groweth so It hath the virtues of salt armonyake/ but they be not so strong. Of this salt may a suppository be made to be laxative.   

¶ De Saluia. Sawge. Ca CCCC. vi.  
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SAwge is hot in the first degree/ & dry in the second. The leaves and flowers be good in medicine. There be two manners of it. The tame/ and the wild/ that is called eupatory. Sawge is good in medicines green & dry/ but the green is best It may be kept one year. when ye find in recepts to take sawge it is the common or tame sawge. But when ye find eupatorium or lilifagus it is wild sawge. The tame comforteth more than the wild/ but the wild unstoppeth the pipes more than the tame/ and hath nearest virtue to castoreum in comforting sinews. The wine that sawge is sudden in is good for them the have the falling evil.  made of water that it is sudden in is good to help let of urine/ and to cause flowers to run and to cleanse the matryce The sauce made of sawge/ percely/ and vinegar with a little pepper is good to comfort the appetite that is feebled by cold humours in the stomach.   

De scabiosa. Scabyous. Ca CCCC. seven.  
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SCabyous is hot & dry in the second degree. Some call it Gallinari/ and is of two manners. But the roughest that groweth in dry places/ in meadows or on hills is of most virtue.  

¶ For scabs. A  
¶ For the scab. seethe the juice of scabyous in oil & vinegar till it be somewhat thick & anoint the scabbed place therewith.   

¶ For alopyce. B  
¶  made in water that it and another herb called tapsebarbe or moleyne is sudden in is good for them that have a spece o● le●●● called alopice in the which the hears ●●●le. Tapsebarbe is a manner of herb called moleyne/ whereof is made a manner of to●ches when it is greased/ and is called wolves tails in french.   

¶ For the worms in the womb. C  
¶ The juice of scabyous is good for the same and also sleeth worms in the womb/ and if the juice with oil be dropped in the ears it cleanseth them of filth.   

¶ For hemorrhoids. D  
¶ Against hemorrhoids. seethe scabyous with wine in a pot and let the patient receive the fume or smoke.   

¶ For the fundament. E  
¶ Against other apostumes of the foundement called condinolata/ or piles/ or atricos that be swellings of the fundament in other places than the veins without any bleeding. Make a plaster of this herb/ and lay thereon/ but the patient must first have the smoke thereof.   

¶ For the stomach. F  
¶ Against apostumes in the stomach or in the bulk. The juice of scabyous purgeth upward and downward/ and many be made hole thereby.   

¶ For the web in the eye. G  
¶ Water of scabyous made in a still is good to cleanse the web in the eye.    

De narsturcio. Cresses. Ca CCCC. viii.  
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Senations is cresses/ when recepts expresseth senations in the plural number/ it is to wite cresses. But if senacenon be written in the singular number/ it is an other herb that shall be spoken of afterward. There be two manner of cresses/ garden cresses and water cresses. and both be called narsturtion/ but when ye find narsturtion or cresses without any other addition/ it is water cresses/ and is also called dramatis or alison.  

¶ For the stomach. A  
¶ Water cresses in water alone/ or with flesh cleanseth the bulk of gross & course humours.   

¶ For the womb. B  
¶  made of salt water and oil that it is sudden in is good against pain of the womb called ylyake passion. And the same is good against let of urine And so doth the herb sudden & laid to it plasterwise.    

¶ De senacionibus. Grownswell Ca CCCC. ix.  
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SEnechon is an herb called sellechon It groweth on coverings of houses and walls. This herb sudden in wine is good for the ache of limbs that be beaten or bruised. For it taketh away the swelling forthwith & abateth the pain or ache Ointment made of this herb is good to close and bind wounds. And is good to ripe botches.   

¶ De serpentina. Dragon's/ or snakesgrasse Ca CCCC. x.  
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SErpentina is otherwise called dragons/ or snakesgrasse because the stalk is spekled like a snake. It is hot & dry. The rote cut in small pieces & dried in the son/ and than made in powder and sifted through a fine cloth/ and confyct with rose water & set three or four days in the son/ & rose water always put thereto and when the first water is wasted by the son/ and ceruse put the third part of the powder/ and the face washed with the said confyture/ taketh away and cleanseth the spots in the face. The powder of serpentine meddled with french soap put in a fistule openeth the entering in such wise that if there be any rotten bone it may be taken out. This powder meddled the third part with lime and vinegar is good to flee a canker.  

¶ For the eyes. A  
¶ Powdre of serpentine put alone in to the eye is good to cleanse the eye of the pin & web. Also the juice of the sedes causeth the flowers to run. And so doth the bathe of that water that this herb is sudden in. The herb sudden and laid on the hemorrhoids drieth them. The juice is contrary to women with child if the body is anointed with juice thereof no serpents will come near it.   

¶ For the breath B  
¶ Against letting of the breathe caused of phlegm the powder of serpentine meddled with honey in manner of electuary/ digesteth phlegm and purgeth it.    

¶ De salicibus. A wylove tree. Ca CCCC. xi.  
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SAlix the wylowe is a camyn tree/ it is cold in the second degree & dry in the first. The bark & the leaves be good in medicine. It hath aperative virtue in the parties of urine/ and also hath virtue to restrain/ and bind.  

¶ For fever. A  
¶ The juice of the leaves of wilowe is good to delay the heat in fevers if it be drunken the powder thereof resowdreth sores where any fleeing is. Diascorides saith/ meddled with vinegar it wasteth worms/ and warts in the hands. Galen saith/ the juice of the bark comforteth the eyes. The juice of the twigs drunken stoppeth the womb The boughs/ and leaves in a chamber refresheth the air about feverons persons.    

¶ De sambuco. Eldre. Ca CCCC. xii.  
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Ambucus is hot in the second degree and dry in the first. The middle bark is good for medicine/ and the leaves next/ and than the flowers. It hath virtue to draw & to purge and lose flewmes  

¶ For fevers. A  
¶ In fever quotidian after that the patient is purged take the wine that the myddle-barke was sudden in. Or else seethe the seed and roots in water a great while/ & stamp them and put thereto a handful of esula and take it before the access.   

¶ For worms in the womb. B  
The juice of this middle bark with honey sleeth the worms in the womb.   

¶ For the liver. C  
¶ To unstop the pipes of the liver and of the milt/ seethe smallage with eldre & drink the broth.   

¶ For the ears. D  
¶ The juice dropped in the ear cleanseth the matter and filth.   

¶ For the feet. E  
¶ To suage the swelling of the feet ●othe them to water that eldre leaves was sudden in.   

¶ For lepry. F  
¶ A bathe made of strong wine that the leaves & flowers is sudden in profiteth them that be like to fall in lepry because of phlegm.   

¶ For vomit. G  
¶ And ye will that the bark cause vomit upward/ it must be shaven upward/ & ye will have voydaunce beneath/ it must be shaven downward.    

¶ De squilla. A squyll or see onion. Ca CCCC. xiii.  
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SQuille is hot & dry in the second degree. the greeks call it bulbe/ some call it stilla/ & albison/ pantaeron/ & cifanoes Some call it cepa marina/ that is onion or chyboll of the see. That that is found alone is deadly. Squilla hath virtue to divide and spread humours/ & hath virtue to unstop the pipes of the urine. When it is put in medicine the outward parts ought to be pilled of & the inner/ & take the middle part & bake them in paste & put them in medycins. For the outward parts for their great hear/ & the inward parts for their great cold been perilous. The rote is better than the leaves in medicine The mean partis thus baken put in oxymel shall be called oxyme sqylatyke. And who so will not have the oxymel stronger seethe the asquill in vinegar and not in wine.  

¶ For the milt. A  
¶ For the hardness of the myltt and liver seethe it in wine & oil & lay it on. Or roast it in hot ashes & put thereto powder of comyne & use it. For the same/ & for the gove and palsy/ & for ache of the womb/ and soreness comen of cold/ put asquill in oil and wine ix days till it rot/ & than seethe it/ and in the broth put juice thereof/ and with wax make an ointment. Against dropsy drink oxymel sqyllatyke for it causeth to piss a pace. For tetters seethe quilla & lay thereon. For a white flaw by the nails lay asquill thereon with breed & vinegar   

¶ For the dropsy. B  
¶ To delay the thirst of them that have the dropsey hold the leaves long on the tongue.    

¶ De storace. Storax. Ca CCCC. xiv.  
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STorax is hot in the first degree/ & dry in the second. It is the gum of a tree that hath a gleimy and gluey substance / and is of dynrytyke virtue. There be three manners of it The first drop that is the purest and cleanest is called storax calamity. The second is not so clear. The third is pure and is called sigia. The best is brown of colour/ and hath a good and sweet savour/ somewhat biting as eager with a bitterness and may be chausted with the hands as wax. That that is sweet is countrefayt with flag roots. But it is known by the werysshnesse. Bright storax is not countrefayt. Reed storax and calamity is of like virtue/ but calamity is the best.  

¶ For rheum. A  
¶ Against rheum coming from the brain Make a long round form of storax/ & put it in the nose/ and if the rheum come from breast. Make pylles of storax/ and let the patient hold it long in his mouth without swallowing.   

¶ For the anela. B  
¶ For rheum that falleth in to the anela. Take the decoction of storax calamity sudden in wine.   

¶ For the stomach. C  
¶ Against cold and hardness of the stomach. Put storax calamity with wax & mastic & incorporate it in a felt or warm cloth/ and lay it to the stomach.   

¶ For the flowers. D  
¶ For to provoke flowers make a fume or smoke of storax upon coals and let the woman receive the smoke with a fonell. Make also a tent of the bigness of a fyuger and put it in the conduit. If the matryce be fallen let her receive the smoke at the nose.   

¶ For costiveness. E  
¶ Against costiveness that a man may not shit. Make smoke thereof beneath. And it is good against scab and scall.    

¶ De Sumac. Ca CCCC. xv.  
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SVmac is cold in the second degree and dry in the third. It is the sede of a little tree called Anagoda. Sumac hath virtue to restrain.  

¶ For bleeding of the nose A  
¶ Against bleeding of the nose/ wete a pith of eldre in juice of bursa pastoris/ and cast powder of Sumac thereon and put it in the nose. For them that spette blood because of disease in the bulk. Take pylles made of the powder of sumac and gum arabyke confycte in rose water.   

¶ For flux of the womb. B  
¶ Against bledy flux of the womb caused of the upper bowels take athanasta. And if be in the neither bowels. Take this powder with barley flower in a clyster.   

¶ For the flowers. C  
¶ Against excessive flowers in women make a suppository of powder of bole armeniake & powder of sumac/ of mastic & juice of plantain & put it in the conduit.  
¶ For bleeding of the outward membres burn Sumac in a new pot and put the powder thereon.   

¶ For itch of the eyes. D  
¶ For itching of the eyen caused of hot humours wash them with water that sumac is sudden in.    

¶ De staphisagria. Ca CCCC. xvi.  
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STaphisagria is hot and dry in the third degree. It is the sede of an her b● called pyllulary or lyle grass/ because it sleeth them. if ye find to take staphisagre/ it is the seed/ It purgeth the heed and brain/ and drieth the evela/ and preserveth rheum from the breast and stomach. And for these things seethe staphisagre in sweet wine with roses/ and than gargoyle the said wine warwe. The powder laid with honey/ sleeth the worms of the womb.  

¶ For to slay lies. A  
¶ For to slay lies. Make an ointment of the sedes with vinegar. This is good against palsy and percucyon of membres.    

De sandalis. Sandres. Ca CCCC. xvii.  
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sandals is a wood called Sandres/ and is cold and dry in the second degree. There be two manners of it/ for there is reed/ white/ and yellow. Constantyne calleth the reed black. This wood sandres is not lightly countrefayt. How be it the reed is sometime countrefayt with bresyll. But it is known because that bresyll hath no sweet odour. Among the sandres the yellow smelleth most/ but the reed hath most virtue. These sandres been good against chafing of the liver/ if the powder be meddled with oil of roses and a little vinegar/ and lay a plaster to the liver called epichymie that is a cloth folded in three or four doubles and wet in this confection/ or that the same be made of the powder of sandres meddled with juice of morel and vinegar. And the same is good for pain of the forehead caused of heat. ¶ To cause one to sleep. Make a plaster of reed sandres with oil of mandrake & lay it to the brows Or take the said powder/ lettuce/ and mandrake/ and meddle them with glayre of an egg and lay it plaster wise to the neck/ and on the liver if flux of blood proceed thereof.  

¶ For hot apostumes. A  
¶ Against hot apostumes. Meddle the powder of sandres with juice of morel and use it on them. To quench thirst in a fever. Put dragagam a night in water/ & strain it and in the straining put powder of sandres/ and sugar/ & make a drink which will delay the heat of the blood and the thirst.   

¶ For appetite. B  
¶ To provoke appetite. Take powder of sandales reed/ white/ and yellow of all three ounces/ and powder of hellebore a dram/ fyling of steel an ounce/ of brent beans three drams/ of sugar a pound/ and make in manner of powder called powder of duke/ and let the filing lay a steep a day and a night in vinegar.    

¶ De Sene. Ca CCCC. xviij.  
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Seen is an herb hot and dry/ and groweth beyond the see. It is good against all sickness caused of humours/ as epilence/ swooning/ and diseases of the milt/ and a broth aught to be made of the leaves sudden in water and sugar. For the same diseases the juice of borage that seen and sugar have been sudden in is good/ and against melancholy of the heed/ and against swooning and faintness of the heart/ and against the falling evil. For the same the water that seen and fennel roots is sudden in with sugar. The leaves been good in medycyn and may be kept ten years Dyascorydes saith that the broth of seen with honey & vinegar is good for the above said diseases. The quantity thereof when it should be put in alone in decoction is an ounce. And if it be put with other laxatives it is but half an ounce.   

¶ De serpyllo. Pellyter. Ca CCCC. nineteen.  
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SErpillum is an herb so called bycauseth it gripeth and spreadeth on the earth. The latyns call it cicer erriticum Some call it Gypos/ other Merules/ or Agriomena/ it is like Origanum but the leaves be whiter and smaller and smelleth like margarym. Thereof is both wild and tame. The tame spreadeth the sprygges on the earth ●●nd the willbe on height The leaves and th● flowers be good in medicine.  

¶ For the rheum. A  
¶ Against cold rheum. roast the flowers and leaves on a tile stone/ and lay it between two clothes to the heed. The wine that serpyllum is sudden in with juice of liquorice is good against the cough. The wine that it is sudden in with anis is good against pain of the stomach that be caused of winds.   

¶ For the urine. B  
¶ A bathe made of water that it is sudden in easeth all let of urine/ be it strangury or dyssury/ and it warmeth/ comforteth/ & cleanseth the matryce. The wine that it is sudden in warmeth the stomach/ and comforteth the liver/ and the milt. Diascorydes saith that it hath virtue to drive away venomous beasts/ therefore it is given to labourers in harvest with their meat/ that if so be that they sleep in the field to be surer. The broth thereof helpeth against biting of venomous beasts/ and against wringing of the belly.   

¶ For spitting of blood. C  
¶ If it be taken with honey and vinegar it is good for them that spette blood. And also it causeth the flowers to run.   

¶ For the heed ache. D  
¶ Also it is good for the heed ache if the temples and the forehead be anointed with oil of roses and vinegar.    

¶ De satureia. Saverey. Ca CCCC. xx.  
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SAuerey is a common herb with sweet smell. It is hot and dry in the third degree. It ought to be gathered when it flowereth/ and dried in the shadow. It cleanseth the longs of course humours/ and wasteth winds/ & caused urine and the flowers to run. broth made of meal & water and powder of saverey cleanseth the bulk and so doth the powder thereof alone. Diascorides saith that it stirreth lechery/ and therefore a woman with child ought not to use it. It is good for them that be in lethargy and ever sleepy/ and it wakeneth them if it be laid to the heed.  

¶ For vomit. A  
¶ The powder thereof taken with a rear egg is good against vomit/ and venomous wounds.    

¶ De sanguina ia. Blodworte/ or yarow Ca CCCC. xxi.  
SAnguinari is of tw● manners. One is so called/ because it causeth to bleed. The other because it chauffeth and  depiction of plant staunchet it. We speak as now of the first and is otherwise called galligris or goose foot because the seed spreadeth forkewyse as a goose foot.  

¶ To cause blood. A  
¶ A twig of this herb with a few of his pricks put in to the nose cause anon to bleed. And therefore it is good for heaviness of the heed caused of to much blood.   

¶ For biting of a mad dog. B  
¶ It is good also against biting of a mad dog/ if it be tempered with breed and laid to. The other sanguynary stauncheth blood is bursa pastoris/ it is spoken of afore/ if any bleed and put it in to the contrary nosethryll.   

¶ For burstenesse. C  
¶ Also the powder of this herb put in meats is good for them that be bursten/ and resowdreth marvelously.   

¶ For bleeding at the nose. D  
¶ Also cotton wet in the juice thereof and put in to the nose stauncheth the blood:    

¶ De stolopendria. hearts tongue ¶ Ca CCCC. xxii.  
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STolopendria is a common herb called cerue lingue The greeks call it spenidion/ because it is good for the milt Other call it erimon/ other locitas/ other figicis/ other herb panaye. It hath a long narrow left like a hearts tongue marked above with reed stripes and groweth in wells and dyches.  

¶ For the liver. A  
¶ Against pain and stopping of the liver and milt. seethe it in water or wine and drink it or if the herb be eaten it is good for the same. Also if it be found in a place that the son shineth thereon plainly stamp it with meal/ and make pylles or cakes fried and eat them ix days for 〈◊〉 said diseases▪    

¶ De Soldanea. Ca CCCC. twenty-three.  
Oldanea is hot and dry and groweth in sandy grounds and on the see brims/ and hath small round leaves and a little rote white & long. The flower is like the flower of azarabachara. It  depiction of plant purgeth the womb violently/ & therefore but one dram ought to be taken with the powder of the rote. And if to mooche be taken it causeth bleeding. But if it stir to much/ and that ye will stop the flux wash the patient in cold water. An author named gentle made mooche of this herb for the dropsey/ and saith that it purgeth the water of the womb. And the arabyes call it catole/ & groweth in lombardy/ and the juice is to be taken or else the powder of the rote. The leaves appear on the earth and is like cuscuta/ that is dodyr.  
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De spinachia. spinach. Ca CCCC. xxiv  
spinach is a very common herb and is cold and moist in the end of the first degree It purgeth flowme/ and cooleth the stomach and the womb/ and loseth the belly/ and breedeth good blood/ & helpeth against dryth of the bulk and longs. Isaac saith that it moisteth the womb and is good against pain of the throat/ caused to much blood or hot phlegm And he saith that spynaches be better than araches for the stomach. An author called Tacuit saith that spinach is hot/ but they all accord that it is moist.   

¶ De sicla/ alias bleta. Betes. Ca CCCC. xxv.  
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SIcla is a common herb called betes It is hot and dry in the first degree. It giveth evil nourishing to the stomach because of the sharpness/ and because it hath superflue moistness. And if it be sudden in water/ and confyet with salt water/ and vinegar/ & a seed called carvi and oil olive/ or oil of almonds it is of better digestion/ and yet in this manner it nourisheth but little/ but it nessheth the womb/ and unstoppeth the opilations of the liver/ & specially if these opilations be caused of gross humours And whither it be sudden with water or without water it is stiptic and binding. And hippocras saith that the water that it is sudden in is stiptic/ but the body of it is binding.   

¶ De stalogia. Cynes. Ca CCCC. xxvi.  
STalogium is of the nature of the onion or thereabout/ and is hot & dry/ but not so much as the onion. It comforteth and warmeth the cold stomach & causeth appetite.  

¶ For venom. A  
¶ Also it correcteth venom and venomous meats/ but it grieveth the sight/ and maketh the mouth to stink/ and any of hot and dry complexion ought not to use it. But if it be sudden with fat it taketh away the evil.    

De spergula. Clyvers. Ca CCCC. xxvij  
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SPargula is a common herb/ and is like to warence in leaves/ but it is less. And as warence is called rubea maior/ so is this called rubea minor/ it spreadeth on the earth and grows all about/ & beareth a little yellow flower in manner of a grape. It hath virtue hot & dry/ and is good against pain of the throat caused of cold/ if it be laid on a hot tile and wine sprung thereon and laid to the throat and therefore it is put in an ointment called marciation.   

¶ De silfu. wild valeryan. Ca cccc. viii.  
Ilfu is an herb called feveer valerian because it is very like valerian/ and is also like saint johnns' wort but the leaves be not pierced but jagged and cloven/ and beareth many flowers that be yellow or of colour of brimstone/ and it stinketh. It groweth about great dyches and pits. It is put in the receipt of the great metryball/ and the rote the flower & the sedes may be put in medicines. It is good for the pain of the matryce/ if frytures or pancakes be made of it and meal and so eaten/ or sudden in wine and droken It is good also to unstop the liver/ and milt caused of cold/ and for letting of urine.   

¶ De sambaco. Ca CCCC. xxix.  
SAmbacus is an herb otherwise called gessemium the leaves thereof have a sweet odour/ & therefore they be good against the faintness of the heart & swooning/ and comfort the membres of the breast. There is an oil made thereof called oleum sambacum/ with oil olive/ and the leaves sudden therein as oil of roses is made This herb is put in a receipt of a medycyn called galla muscata/ & this herb is good for the foresaid diseases used inwardly/ & also without.   

¶ De spina benedicta. Ca CCCC. thirty.  
SPina benedicta is a manner of thorn whereof great abundance groweth in Tustan and in other countries/ & hedges is made of it. The leaves thereof be not very straight but bossed and be thick and of a finger length and not very green but whytysshe.  

¶ For milk in women. A  
¶ The leaves sudden and eaten causeth milk to flow in women marvelously but moche more if they be sudden with lentils.    

¶ De radice yringorun. Ca CCCC. xxxi.  
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SCacull is a manner of thystie with broad leaves called yringe. It is very profitable to many passions and diseases. The rote ought to be put in medicines and provoketh urine/ and comforteth the reins/ and is good to the matter of generation/ and unstoppeth the liver and the milt and causeth appetite. And the said rote must be sudden in water and confyet with ginger/ sugar/ and clean honey one night/ and it may be eaten at even for the stuffing of the breast/ the stomach/ & the reins/ & for cold people of nature weak and old it is much behoveful.   

¶ De sebasten. Ca CCCC. xxxij.  
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SEbasten been fruits of beyond the see like small plumbs they be hot in the second degree/ and moist in the first when they be ripe they be gathered & dried in the son/ & may be kept three years in a dry place and not in a moist. They have virtue to chafe/ to open the membres of the bulk and to moist.  

¶ For the breathe. A  
¶ Against letting of the breath/ by dryth or by cold/ and for the ptysyke/ and piercing of the lungs/ & for fevers. seethe these fruits in water with fygues/ liquorice/ and an herb called capillum veneris This decoction drunken is very good.   

¶ For fevers ague B  
¶ This fruit is put in drinks or syropes ordained for sharp fevers/ & for apostumes of the sides called pleresy.    

¶ De sistra. Dyll. Ca CCCC. xxxiij.  
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SIstra or sister is dill/ some call it men but that is not so. How be it they be very like in proprieties and virtue/ and be put each for other/ but sistra is of more virtue than meu/ and the leaves be like an herb called valde bona/ & beareth small sprygges as spikenard. It groweth on high hills and hath singular virtue against vomit/ and hath no complexyonall quality but divine. It consumeth winds against digestion/ openeth the conduits of urine/ of the liver and milt.  

¶ For the sight A  
¶ It profiteth to the sight and sleeth the worms in the belly/ but the rote more than any part of the herb/ howbeit all is good.    

¶ De Salunica. Caltrappe. Ca CCCC. xxxiiij.  
SAlunica is an herb thaome call spyke celtyke/ but that is not true. But because they be of like might the spike celtyke is put for salunica. It groweth at the foot of a tree/ and beareth small sprays  depiction of plant that be of a brown colour/ & have a bitter savour. And Dyascorides saith that when it is plucked out of the earth it gathereth on a heep.  
¶ Against cold of the stomach caused of cold or wind/ and also against stopping of the milt and liver. seethe it in wine & drink it three days. It is good against letting of urine/ be it strangury or dyssury/ and against pain of the reins and the bladder and provoke urine/ and causeth the flowers to slow in women.   

¶ De Spuma maris. A pounce. Ca CCCC. xxxv.  
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SPuma maris is a pounce that perchement is pounched with it is cold and dry in the third degree. It hath virtue to waste the web in the eye in this manner. Take very small powder thereof and pass it through a sarsenet and meddle as much gum sarcocol/ and of these two make a clear substance and confection called collere/ and with water of celydone & scabyous put a drop in the eye. Also it whyteth the teeth if they be rubbed with powder thereof.   

¶ De spongia marina. A sponge Ca CCCC. xxxvi.  
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SPongia is a sponge/ it is hot and dry/ and breedeth in the bottom of the see/ and is of two manners/ one is russet of colour and is the most hot. The other is white and less hot/ and is called vergylyne. It hath virtue resolutyfe steeped in wine or water. Or seethe the leaves of camomile/ and fennel seed or anes sede/ and it will waste the pain caused of wind/ and comforteth the weak membres/ and easeth passion of colic/ or pleuresy engendered of wind.   

¶ De Sigillo sancte marry. Or ladies saele. Ca CCCC. xxxvij.  
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SIgillum sancte mary/ or sigillum Salamonis is all one herb that is called Salamons' seal or our ladies seal It groweth in dark shadowy places and in forests and hath leaves like arsmerre & little small white flowers/ and beareth r●●d sedes on a row two & two one as an other in order and hath a white knotty rote as kneholme or fragon. This rote hath virtue to chafe & suage aches and to comfort  

¶ For the sinews A  
¶ Against pain of the sinews and of the milt. Make an ointment of this rote with bears greas and oil/ & anoint the place Or seethe the rote in water and bathe the place therewith and lay it upon it   

¶ For to cleanse the face. B  
¶ For tetters and to cleanse the face. Make an ointment of the juice with oil of lentils and white wax & anoint it therewith    

¶ De Saxifraga/ minori. The less saxifrage. Ca CCCC. xxxviij  
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SOrba stella is hot and dry/ and is like pimpernel. safe the pymꝑnell hath little balls or pellers and sorba hath none. It is called the less saxifrage & groweth a the foot of mountains in canes and pits. It is good against darkness of eyes and for the web in this manner. Make a confection with juice of this herb with white honey and put it in the eyen.  

¶ Against venom. A  
¶ Against venom and biting of venomous beasts. Drink the juice alone/ or with 〈◊〉 and will do ease.   

¶ For wounds. B  
¶ Powder of this herb put on wounds 〈◊〉 ●●●h moche to te●owdre them.    

¶ De Sorbis. Ca CCCC. xxxix.  
SOrbes is the fruit of a tree that is good to eat. They be cold and dry in the third degree. It ought to be gathered in ver and in heru●st or they be ripe/ Some cleave them and dry them to keep them a hole yete. This fruit hath virtue  depiction of plant to refresh/ restrain/ and to comfort.  

¶ For flux of the womb. A  
¶ Against flux of the womb caused of choleric humours/ and against dissynterens or flux of blood/ make this electuary/ take them unripe and seethe them in water till they be soft and that they may be strained through a colender so that all the sedes be taken away. And with a pound of fine scummed honey seethe them till they be thick & than put thereto dragon's blood/ mastic bull armoniac/ dragagant/ gum arabyke/ of each two drams/ of sumac and achace/ of each half an ounce/ of folium/ cloves maces/ cinnamon/ and ginger/ of each half a dram/ and put therein all sarced powder & meddled it with the said honey and give it to the said patient at all times and special at an empty stomach.   

¶ For costiveness. B  
¶ Against costiveness caused of cold/ receive the smoke thereof at the fundament and stew it therewith a great while/ and eat of these forbes ripe or dry.   

¶ For vomit. C  
¶ Against vomit causeth of choleric humours/ make a plaster of forbes scantly ripe and lay it to the stomach.    

¶ De Sinomo. Wild percely. Ca CCCC. xl.  
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SInomum is wild percely. It is hot. The seed gathered and dried may be kept .v. years. It is good to the same that pencedanum/ dog fenel is good for It is spoken of in the chapter of percely afore.   

¶ De Orant. Ca CCCC. xli.  
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THe masters said that this herb hath great and many vertu●s. The midwifes have commonly this herb about them when they been occupied by women labouring of shield/ for it causeth a light departing from the shield.   

¶ De Sizania. Ca CCCC. xlij.  
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SIzania is ray or cockyll. It is a seed called gyguilena and is hot & moist in the first degree and groweth haboundantly in cycyll and in parts beyond the see/ and it is so wen as millet. Of this seed is an oil made called sizanie. And is made as oil of almonds. This oil is good for to eat/ and is good for them that hath pain of the breathe and swelling of the sinews/ and for them that be consumed and dried by sickness/ but it noyeth the stomach because it causeth vomit. If it be eaten temperately with line seed and poppy it creaseth lechery. Isaac saith that of itzanie the husks is taken away sometime & sometime not. The sizanie without husk is more unctuous and stronger to digest/ And therefore sizanie noyeth the stomach/ and specially to sinews and old folks. For by the great viscosyte and gleymynesse thereof it softeneth and causeth defection/ and laxative. And it destroyeth the virtue digestive/ and converteth course choleric humours in to fumolitees & breedeth thirst and wasteth appetite to ear/ and changeth the good odour of the mouth in to stench/ and specially if it be holden or abide in the teeth. But it is not so grievous if it be taken with honey/ and specially roasted. That in the husks grieveth less in what manner so ever it be taken. The water that the stalks of sizanye is sudden in cleanseth the hears of the heed and causeth them/ and wasteth the scurf or dedskynne that causeth the hear to fall. If it be sudden in water and drunken it causeth flowers to flow in women. Some anucyent auctors say that Sizanie is good against venom/ for by the vyscosyte thereof it stoppeth all the conduits or pores of the body. And also the venom can not come nigh the heart. Diascorydes maketh no difference between Sizanie and nucleon/ but the one may be put for the other.   
¶ Thus endeth the names of herbs beginning with. S.   

¶ And beginneth the names of herbs beginning with. T.  

¶ De tamaristo. Ca CCCC. xliij.  
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TAmaryte is a little tree hot and dry in the second degree The bark is better for medicines than the leaves. It is diuretic/ and unstoppeth the liver and the milt if the rote be sudden in wine and the wine drunken The powder with meat is good for the same. ¶ Wine drunken in a vessel of the wood thereof is good for the said diseases.   

¶ De terra sigillata. Seal earth. Ca CCCC. xliiij.  
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TErra sigillata is otherwise called saracenes earth or silvered clay. Because of the worthiness thereof it is sealed on both sides. It is sweet smelling and is whytysshe ●●d bright That the is black or all white & that stretcheth not is nought Sealederthe is of great virtue to staunch A plaster made of the powder with white of an egg laid on the temples and forehead stauncheth the flux of blood at the nose and against flux of blood of the womb. A plaster of the powder thereof and of roses with vinegar stauncheth vomyre made by choleric humours/ if it be laid to the stomach.  

¶ For the gout. A  
¶ Against swelling of the feet or gout Make a plaster of the powder with vinegar/ oil of roses/ & gleyre of an egg. This powder with powder of sanguynary is good for the fame.    

¶ De Tetrahit. Ca CCCC. xlv.  
TEtrahit is an herb called herb of ynde. It is hot and dry in the second degree. The wine that it is sudden in comforteth digestion/ and taketh away the pain of the stomach and bowels caused of wind. Cakes made of this herb with meal and water comforteth digestion & the natural heat and causeth to piss.  

¶ For let of urine. A  
¶ A plaster made of this herb sudden in water easeth the let of urine.   

¶ For the matryce B  
¶ Small bathe made of the water that it is sudden in chauffeth the matryce and cleanseth it. A tent or suppository made of the burgens sudden in oil of musk is good for the same when it is dry it hath no virtue.    

¶ De Tyntymallo. Ca CCCC. xlvi.   depiction of plant 
TIntymall is hot and dry in the third degree/ there be two speces spoken of afore that is of esula/ and of la●●reole. Now will we speak of anabule.  
¶ Anabule that groweth beyond the set is the herb that squamony is made of and is called tyntymall of babylon. Anabule of this cofitre yieldeth milk and aught to gathered in primetimes or at the beginning of summer/ and aught to be kept in a vessel of glass. It may only be kept two month. It must be gathered thus. In the same time anabule is broken at the tap/ and the milk the cometh out is warily gathered For if the milk toucheth the hands it will fleye them. This milk is to violent to be used alone/ but aught to be delayed with some medycyn as golden pylles. Some auctors use of this milk to sharpen their medicines because it laxeth sore To take away the malice thereof/ seethe this milk with gum arabic or with tragacanth in an egg shell till it seethe a little and put the quantity of three drams or four at the most in medicine.   

¶ De Turbith. Ca CCCC. xlvij  
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TVrbith is the rote of a tree the is dry in the third degree. That is to be chosen that is hollow within. The wood is nothing worth in medycyn. It is known in the breaking whiter it be good/ or not. For if it powder or be full of holes it is to old. It may be kept two years. Turbith hath virtue to dissolve/ to moist/ and to withdraw and specially phlegm. And Arystotle saith in the book of the regiment of princes that it purgeth phlegm and the mouth of the stomach. It is not commonly given by itself/ for it would be to violent but some medicines be sharped therewith as the medicine called bennet or gerologādion.  

¶ Against ylyake passion. A  
¶ It is also good against ylyake passion and against podagre gout because it purgeth phlegm that causeth these diseases. ¶ A confection made of turbith with a confection of oil of roses for to correct the malice/ and gum arabyke put and scummed honey is good for the said sicknesses. Turbith fretteth the deed flesh of wounds if it be laid on them.    

¶ De Tapsia. Ca CCCC. xlviii  
TApsia or Tapse is an herb hot & dry in the third degree. That that groweth in hot regions is the best.  
The rote and the bark is good in vomit medicines. It hath virtue to purge phlegm and choleric humours upward/ and therefore it is put in such medicines. But he that beateth it must stop his nose well and his eyes/ or else it would cause his eiē to sweet. And if it be meddled with other medycyns it breaketh apostumes.   

¶ De Tela aranea. A spider web. Ca CCCC. xlix.  
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TEla aranea is a cobweb/ and is cold and dry/ and hath virtue to staunch blood/ and to resolve and rejoin new wounds. It is put about tents made to cleanse wounds/ and is good for breaking of the heed and suageth the ache/ & letteth no rottenness to gather/ if it be laid to it with oil and vinegar.  

¶ For fevers. A  
¶ If it be bound to the temples it healeth fever tercyan/ and stauncheth bleeding at the nose if it be put in oil. And if it be laid to the ears it suageth the pain. The webs of tree spiders bounden in leather and hanged about the neck is good against fever quartain.    

¶ De tapso barbato. Hareberde/ or hygtaper. Ca CCCC.l.  
TApsus barbatus is a common herb with rough leaves and beareth a long stalk whereof is made a manner of taper or link if it be talowed. Some call it moleyne/ some hareberde/ some hyg taper. Other call it flosmon/ blandone and argymon. It is cold and dry. There is male and female. The femell is greater and hath brother leaves/ and is the better of both.  

¶ For hemorrhoids. A  
¶ A bathe made of wine and this herb is good against hemorrhoids and to wipe the fundament with the leaves when it is stewed or bathed outward. A little bathe made of water that it is sudden in is good against wringing and flux of the belly. Powdre of the leaves is good against cankers.  
¶ To drive fishes out of a place. Put the leaves in the water/ and for the bitterness thereof they will swim away. That with small leaves is good also.   

¶ For worms in the belly. B  
¶ For small worms of the belly. Make pancakes or frytures of meal with leaves of small Tapsebarbe and eat them.    

¶ De terbentine. Terpentyne ¶ Ca CCCC. li.  
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TErbentyne is hot and dry. It is the gum of a tree called sapyn or fyrre. It hath aperative virtue/ and wasteth winds/ and cleanseth the matryce & comforteth it/ as well in using it in meats or cakes made thereof and of meal/ as in making suppository or fumigation.  

¶ For costiveness. A  
¶ For costiveness make fume beneath on coals & let the patient receive it in a fonell.   

¶ For the matryce. B  
¶ For the matryce that is fallen. Make a tent or suppository and anoint it. For the same let the woman receive the same beneath with a fonell/ or at the rising of it receive it so above.   

¶ For apostumes. A  
¶ To break apostumes meddle it with barley meal and lay thereon. It is put in ointments to join wounds & resowdre them. Oil that is made & stilled thereof is called oil of terbentyne/ and it is very good and excellent for palsy gouts and swelling/ or shrinking and ache of the sinews if it be caused of cold if the place be anointed therewith.    

¶ De tribulo marino. Reed brere. Ca CCCC. lij.  
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TRibulus marinus is a thistle/ a brere or a tasyll. It groweth in sandy grounds and by the see side and spreadeth and rampeth on the ground. It is found in summer. And beareth a pricking sede/ and therefore it is called thistle of the see. It hath diuretic virtue. And therefore it is good against strangury or dyssury and against the stone/ and the decoction ought to be drunken. Or powder of the sede drunken with wine is very good. It is put in an ointment called agripa. And it is good against dropsey/ and other swellings where so ever they be. And causeth to piss well if the reins & share is anointed therewith. And if the belly is anointed therewith it laxeth it.   

¶ De tormentilla. Ca CCCC. liij.  
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tormentil is an herb that is called fystularia/ or taglafayre/ and is like Sinkfoyle and groweth on hills and moist places.  

¶ For fistula. A  
¶ For fistule in what place that it be/ the juice of it is good dropped in the hole. And so doth a tent dipped in the said juice & laid to the fistule.   

¶ For the eyes. B  
¶ For the web in the eye Meddle the juice with white wine and drop it therein.   

¶ For venom. C  
¶ For all venom the powder thereof is good with water of remort. And against swelling of the leg/ bathe the leg in the water thereof.   

¶ For pestilence. D  
¶ The powder thereof taken with scabyous water is good against the pestilence/ if it be taken at the beginning of the sickness   

¶ For the flux E  
¶ Against flux of the womb. The powder of the rote thereof is good with warm water of plantain.    

¶ De trifolio. Trefle or three leaved grass Ca CCCC. liiij.  
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TRefle as Dyascorydes saith is of iiij. sorts. One is called trefle with three cantes that some call Polifilon/ and there is a trefle called trefliagri or trifolium soffolidum and in latin Exifilon. The fourth is trefle lageteron/ and the latyns call it hare trefle with a reed flower and a sharp sede. The rote thereof unstoppeth the conduits of urine.  

¶ For apostumes A  
¶ If the flowers and sedes be sudden in water it is good for them that have apostumes in their sides called plenresy and for them that may not piss and for the falling evil and for dropsey at the first of it/ and for stopped menstrue. The leaves taken with oxymel is good against venom/ & so doth all the stalk or plant sudden in water/ and the venomed place washed therewith/ And it is good for wounds. Three leaves or three sedes giveth remedy to fever tertian.    

¶ De tartaro wine lies. Ca CCCC. lv.  
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TArtyr lies of wine is hot & dry in the third degree. That of the purest wine is the best. For all manner of gouts tetters. Make an ointment in this wise. Put lies of wine in vinegar all ● night/ and in the morning make an ointment against the said things. Also seethe the sedes of stafisagre in water of the which with powder of tartre make a myrtion and it will destroy the scruffe of the heed if it be anointed therewith two or three times. The powder of wine lies taken with meats or otherwise causeth the greas of a man or woman/ and the saracens use it to keep them low and lean. For this cause take half an ounce or three drams with some electuary of good taste as dyapedyon dragagant dyamargaryton/ or clary. But nevertheless the use thereof causeth excoracyon or fleyenge of the bowels/ and when it is used mastic aught to be put thereto.   

¶ De Thucia. Ca CCCC. luj.  
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THucia is a stone coming from the earth and sometime cometh from the ●●enes. Thucia is of many colours/ some is white/ some green/ some citrine. The white is to be chosen for the best/ and his nature is to be cold. Some say that thucia is of all manner of meteles/ of gold/ of silver/ and of lead. And they that cometh from the lead is the best next the first/ and it shall be used in medicine. It is principally good for the eyes. Some saith that thucia is made of herbs/ as of fig tree leaves/ and leaves of mora celsi. This thucia made by craft of herbs and drieth in an oven is not of so great virtue as the other on the meteles. How thucia is made and where of/ ye shall find in Pandecta in his. ccccc. and lxxxvi chapter.   

¶ De Terediabinti. Ca CCCC. lvij.  
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TErediabin (as Serapio saith in his book aggregato. in the chapter Terediabin i mel roris) is a dew descending from the heaven and liketh moche the honey that is greyned/ and falleth often on the trees in the land Corasteni before the rising of the son in the morning. Those trees hath great leaves/ and thorns/ & reed flowers/ but of the flowers grown not fruits. This honey dew hath virtue to lax/ & mollify the womb/ & moisteth the breast And is specially good for them that hath much untempered hotenesses within. And it is to be chosen that is white and new.  

¶ For swelling. A  
¶ It used with fenel sedes suageth the swelling within the body/ and also the swelling coming of hot fevers/ & abbateth the thirst as Plinius saith.   

¶ For the heat B  
¶ It taken with endive water abateth the excessive heat coming of fevers. Or taken with passule/ raysyns' of corans ceaseth it also/ and taketh away the thirst.    

¶ De frumento. wheat. Ca CCCC. lviij  
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TRiticum is wheat it is hot in the first degree and is mean between hot and moist/ and the breed that is made thereof is more hot than moist/ for the heat mounteth to the second degree by heat of the fire that it is baken with/ and because that elements change the degree of things. And that is seen by the action that elements do in many things. Example/ melons been cold and moist in the second degree/ and nevertheless their sedes become dry in the son. Barley & beans been dry of their nature/ but in the seething in water they become moist. Than sith it is so the dry things receive moisture by water and moist things dryth by the son/ it may be said that hot things been cooled by snewe/ and cold things heat by fire. Among all grains & sedes wheat hath the propriety to nourish best by likeness that it hath to the complexion of mankind and therewith it hath other proprieties for medicines/ for it is running and cleansing The juice thereof confyet with the meal purgeth the breast and the lungs and delayeth the sharpness thereof/ and ptysame of wheat is better than of barley.  

¶ For tough. A  
¶ Against cough and flux of blood of the breast sudden with oil and laid on hard apostumes it softeneth them and spreadeth the matter. If the meal of wheat be meddled with vinegar and honey and laid ●n pimples of the face it cleanseth them.   

¶ For breasts B  
¶ If it be meddled with rue and sudden in water and laid to hard breasts that be crudded with milk it will soften them.   

¶ For broken sinews. C  
¶ If it be meddled with juice of hanebane and laid plasterwise to broken sinews it will keep them that no grievous humours come to them. ¶ Grain of wheat chawed is good for the impostume that cometh of biting of a mad dog. Oil made of the grain of wheat is good for tetters/ and ringworms/ but the place must be first well rubbed with a coure linen cloth. juice or broth made of the wheat meal or dust that fleeth about the mill is good for them that spette blood called emoptoyke passion. The bran of wheat is hotter & drier of kind than the meal/ and is of little nourishing but it is cleansing. If it be steeped in water/ and rubbed between the hands and than strained and meat like pap made thereof it will cleanse the lungs and the breast of course humours/ & if milk be put in the said meat it is more nourishing/ and sooner avoyeth the stomach. If it be sudden in wine and laid plasterwise to breasts that be hardened with 〈◊〉 it will mollify them and the same is good against biting of a serpent. New wheat is of little nourishing and turneth anon to rottenness and to raw phlegmatic humours/ and breedeth worms in the beli But if it be baken it nourisheth more and causeth less wind/ and if it be sudden in water it is hard to digest/ and swelleth specially if there be moche meal and little bran. But when it may be well digested it nourisheth greatly and comforteth and ysueth late of the belly/ and it ought to be given to labourers.    
¶ Thus endeth the names of herbs beginning with. T.   

¶ And beginneth the names of herbs beginning with. V  

¶ De violis. Vyolettes. Ca CCCC. lix.  
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VYolettes be cold in the first degree and moist in the end of the second If they be dried as they ought to be They may be kept two years. But it is best to have new every year. While they be fresh sugar of vyolettes is made of them/ honey of vyolettes/ and oil of vyolettes. And syrup may be made of vyolettes both green & dry/ but it is not of so great virtue dry as fresh. sugar of them is made as sugar of roses. And the syrup of vyolettes is made in this manner. seethe vyolettes in water/ & let it lie all night in the same water. Than power and strain out the water and in the same put sugar and make your syrup. But the juice of vyolettes with sugar is better. Oil of vyolettes is made thus. seethe vyolettes in oil and strain it/ & it will be oil of vyolettes/ or seethe the vyolettes in double vessels/ that is to put the vessel that the vessel that the vyolettes be in to put in to an other full of seething water/ that the vyolettes may seethe by heat of the water Or the best is to seethe them in oil & strain them/ and in the straining other fresh vyolettes/ and let them lie twenty days/ and than strain the oil again/ and put other new vyolettes to it/ & this will be good oil. Each of these confections be good against all evil heats of the body▪  

¶ For the liver. A  
¶ This oil of vyolettes taken outward is good against chafing of the liver. And if the temples and forehead be anointed therewith it suageth the heed ache of heat. Vyolettes have virtue to moist/ to smooth/ to cool/ and to unbind. This vyolettes or the herbs that that they grow on stamped is good against hot apostumes at the beginning  made of the water that the leaves is sudden in and the feet or the forehead bathed therewith causeth to sleep in fever ague. And the syrup of vyolettes must be more sudden than the syrup of roses or it would putrefy or rot anon    

¶ De valeriana. Valerian. Ca CCCC. lx.  
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valerian is called fu. It is hot & dry in the second degree The roots be gathered in summer/ and dried in the son and may be kept three years in goodness. The rote is put in medicine/ and that is to be chosen that is massyfe and not preced full of holes/ and that powdered not when it is broken/ and it hath diuretic virtue  

¶ For the urine A  
¶ Against strangury and dyssury take the wine that valerian is sudden in with fenel seed or mastic/ and with the same wine juice of some diuretic herb were good. Against the disease take juice or wine that this herb is sudden in with bran of wheat or barley or other lenytyke thing.   

¶ For the matryce. B  
¶ To cleanse the superflucees of the matryce. Make fomentation of water that it is sudden in/ or make a suppository of cotton wet in the confection of the powder of valerian and oil of musk or comynoyle   

¶ For the liver. C  
¶ Against the opilation of the liver and the milk caused of cold take the water that it is sudden in.    

¶ De vitro. Glass. Ca CCCC. lxi.  
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Vitrun is glass it is cold in the first degree and dry in the second. And it is made of glass and of sand by might of fire in the furnaces/ and by great artyfyce and sleight.  

¶ For scabs A  
¶ Against scabs take rosin melted and strained in water & put thereto nut oil lies of wine/ powder of glass and make anoyntement and anoint the scabs.   

¶ For tetters. B  
¶ For tetters'/ meddle powder of glass with terbentyne/ and make an ointment/ or put publican tree wax in warm water & strain it and put powder of glass thereto and make an ointment.   

¶ For the morfewe C  
¶ For the morfewe confyct this powder with flowers of mulberies and oil of toses and anoyte the place/ but first ●i●● be it that the blood come out.   

¶ For the eyen. D  
¶ Against the web in the eye comlyct the powder with juice of plantain and put it in the eyen.    

¶ De virga pastoris. Wild tasyll. Ca CCCC. lxij.  
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Irga pastoris is a weed so called. It beareth a tasyl on the stalk like the tasyll of clothier's but it is not ●oked/ and therefore some call it a tasyll This h●r be is cold and dry in the beginning of the third degree. The leaves only be good in medicine/ and may be kept a year/ but the dry ones be of greatest virtue. They have virtue to cool/ to restrain & put back matters that flow in any place/ as in apostumes.  

¶ For the flux. A  
¶ Against flux of the body make a plaster of the powder of this herb with vinegar/ and glayre of an egg and lay it to the share. The powder thereof taken with a rer● egg is good for the same/ and to the excess●fe course of flowers in women/ if a little bathe be used made of the water that it is sudden in. The green bruised is good for hot apostumes/ & also for frautyke folk if their heeds be shaven & it laid thereto A plaster of this herb is good for brenning of the stomach and of the heed. The juice of this herb meddled with camfere stauncheth bleeding at the nose. The juice o●ely put in the nostrils healeth the nymples and stauncheth the bleeding. This juice also stoppeth the excessyse course of flowers in women if suppository be laid to the place. And also cooleth hot apostumes. This juice ministered in clyster is good for flux of blood at the nose and healeth the fleynges of the gurtes.   

¶ For cankers. B  
¶ For cankers burn the heeds of & cast the powder thereon. To take away warts or ringworms wash the hands with water of the leaves Some say that it is the water that lieth in the hollowness of the leaves/ and that is true.    

¶ De Vitecella. Ca CCCC. lxiij.  
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VItecella is a weed that is like a wild vine or gourd and rampeth and creepeth on hedges/ and beareth a reed berry or seed. It is also called tamium/ and aliepias.  

¶ For the milt. A  
¶ The rote thereof stamped with porks grease/ and molten at the fire and strained and meal of line seed and oil put thereto and an ointment made thereof is good for hardness of the milt and liver/ and to ripe apostumes. suppository or tent made of the rote causeth the flowers in women to flow/ and causeth a deed child come out of the moders womb. This rote maketh good colour to them that be pale or wan in this manner. Bray this rote and take the juice thereof & anoyte the face where ye will have colour and it will be reed.   

¶ For colour in the face. B  
¶ If there be filth in an aposteme for to break it make a plaster of the juice of this herb & lay it to The powder of a medycyn called a darcis is very good to break it.    

De viperina/ alias urtica mortua. Deed nettle or archangel. Ca CCCC. lxiiij.  
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VIperina is weed called deed nettle or bind nettle and groweth by dyches and waters in yses/ and hath good leaves & a bitter savour/ it is good against biting of a serpent called vipera/ & purgeth out all venom if it be bruised & drunken with wine.  

¶ For fistules. A  
¶ It is good astaynst fistules if it be bruised and laid thereto twice or thrice in a day and it ought to be gathered in Apryll.    

¶ De urtica. Nettle. Ca CCCC. lxv.  
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VRtica the nettle is called a palife of the greeks/ other achantis vrgīda orminon. It is of hot virtue/ for it burneth and pricketh them that thouche it. It is good against saundies if it be drunken in wine sudden therewith/ and cleanseth the colour marvelously.  

¶ For old cough. A  
¶ Against old cough seethe the sedes in water & put honey thereto/ & drink it & it will heal the cough/ & taketh away the cold of the lungs/ & swelling of the belly.   

¶ For wounds. B  
¶ Also the leaves stamped with salt/ & laid on wounds or sores full of matter healeth them. And the same is good against biting of a dog/ & canker/ & bindeth and fasteneth flesh loosed fro the bone/ & drieth the noyful humours. C   

¶ For the feet and the milt D  
¶ Against podagre and swelling of the feet/ and pain of the milt. Make a plaster of nettle roots well stamped with by neygre and lay to them. This will suage all swelling and pain of the feet & hands without swellings   

¶ For bleeding at the nose. E  
¶ To cause the nose bleed. Put the juice of nettles in it. And to stance the bleeding anoint the forehead with the juice/ or lay the herb brayed to the place that bleedeth.   

¶ Ffor the flowers. E  
¶ To cause the flowers to flow in women Take the juice of nettles and urine/ & put it in the matryce. ¶ To encreas the appetite of lechery drink nettle sede often with wine. Or confycte the said seed in electuary with honey and pepper/ and use it. Also the water that it is sudden in with honey is good for them that have their milt intamed/ & aposteme in the lungs/ often use of sweet wine and honey cleanseth the lungs.   

¶ To nesshe the womb. F  
¶ Also use the pottage made of nettles nessheth the womb/ & is good for many things. Anenzoar saith if it be often used it kept fro gravel. Also this herb sudden in oil and the chine of the back anointed therewith/ anon provoketh sweat/ as Galyen saith. Also the heed anointed with juice of nettles keepeth the hear from falling.   

¶ For the suffocation of the matryce. G  
¶ For a disease in women called suffocation of the matryce that they fall of & seemeth deed/ lay a plaster of bruised nettles to the nature of her/ and she shall feel great ease.   

¶ For scurf of the heed. H  
vinegar that the seed of nettles is sudden in is good against scrufe of the heed/ if the heed be washed therewith twice or thrice and than rynsed with water. This vinegar is good for the breaking of the heed & suageth the pain.    

¶ De Vermiculari. Ca CCCC. lxvi.  
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VErmiculayre is a little herb that groweth on walls & eves of houses. It hath small leaves in manner of small worms set thick together. It hath virtue of howsleke/ and is put in the ointment called populeon. Therefore it serveth in fever agues engender of choleric humours It is profitable to put to the liver/ with stamped nettles. And against fever tercyan and excessive heat if it be used it proufyteth moche.   

¶ De Volubilis. Woodbine. Ca CCCC. lxvij.  
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VOlubilis is an herb so named/ & is in four manners. That is to wite the more/ the less/ the mean/ and the yellow. The more volubilis is also called finiculus arbatus/ and hath a white flower and is better for medicyn than the other For the oath been to violent and sharp. And that which hath leaves like smallage and when it is broken milk cometh out that is very venomous and if it be used it breedeth bloody flux in the womb. The rote thereof aught to be taken primtyme/ and dried in the son/ and when need is take a drag me or twain. This powder ought not to be used alone/ but with other medicines that delayeth and suageth the malice. Thus taken it purgeth jaundices.  

¶ For choleric humours. A  
¶ Drink made of whey of milk with juice of smallage and endive purgeth choleric humours/ and cleanseth the blood and against jaundices caused of cold seethe this rote in water with anis and mastic and the gomme called tragacanth & spikenard.    

¶ De Vicetorium. Ca CCCC. lxviij.  
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Icetorium or antifermacum is all one. It groweth on hills and ●tony places/ & hath thick black leaves and white flowers/ and a black sede in manner of a fytche but it is sharper The leaves and the sedes ought to be put in medycyn.  

¶ For biting of a serpent. A  
¶ Against biting of a serpent/ spider/ o● venomous be'st. Meddle the said herb with salt and lay it to the place. The powder thereof with powder of turmentyll/ tuntet and of an unicorn healeth all venom of venomous beasts taken with Scabyous water.    

¶ De Vua. A. grape. Ca CCCC. lxix.   depiction of plant 
Wa a grape/ or a raysyn is in two manners/ that is the green or eager and the ripe full of sweetness/ & that aught to be called the grape. That that is eager is cold in the third degree/ and dry in the second. It hath three divers substance. That is to wite the husk/ the kyrnelles/ and the humour within. The kernels be so hard and dry that nothing of them converteth to the substance of man/ and come all hole out of the digestion.  
But if they be broken or made in powder and eaten they comfort the stomach/ and restraineth the body of colic/ and specially if they be roasted. The husk is hard also and tough▪ and can not torn to the nature of the body/ and therefore it nourisheth not. The humour for the sharp sourness is ill to digest/ but yet it comforteth the stomach/ and quencheth the heat of the liver and suage thirst/ and refraineth and lesseth the brenning of choleric humours & stauncheth choleric vomit/ caused of default that cometh of the virtue retentive of the stomach or liver. And if it be put in the eyen it softeneth and tendereth the course humours of the stones and more/ and is good against itching and pricking of them. Dyascorides ordained to put grapes in the son to wax eager afore the canyculer days/ so long that they waxed thick as honey. And this juice so thycked is good for the humours that fall in to the throat and gomes/ and to the ears. If clyster be done with it/ it is good against bloody flux of the womb/ and against humours that fall in to the matryce. ¶ Vua matura/ the ripe grape engendereth good blood as the fig doth that is one of the best fruits that is. But the fig nourisheth more. The ripe grape is composed of four divers substances. The kernel is cold and dry and is of stiptic virtue as the kernel of the unripe grape. but it hath a manner of sharpness that causeth it to issue anon out of the stomach or it be soon digested. Also the husk is cold and dry and tough to digest. And Galyen saith that the husks of the grape and of the fig be like in digestion. And therefore if the grape be eaten with the husk and kernels it hardeneth the womb and causeth winds/ and swell lynge. For they breed humours far from nature and blood. Also Galyen saith that figs and grapes been the best of all fruits/ for they be not of hard digestion/ & specially if they be left to ripe perfitly on the tree/ and that is proved because the labourers in their seasons almost use them a lovely for their meats/ and were fat crisp/ and clean of their flesh. And when figs and grapes be out of season & fail them anon they were leanly/ and lose their fatness that they had gotten afore. And because that the flesh caused of figs and grapes is more foggy than fast and steadfast/ some eat grapes in one manner/ and some in another. Some eat them as soon as they come from the vine/ and some do hang them in the air till they have lost some of their moistness. Other when they be gathered put them in must or sudden wine They that be eaten as soon as they be taken from the vine/ if they find the stomach empty as well of humours as of other meat. If the stomach be strong in digestion the convert in to good blood/ and helpeth to unbind the womb/ and to purge the body of evil humours. And if they find the stomach full of humours or other meats/ or feeble of digestion they abide long and cause swelling and wind/ and torn in to naughty humours/ and breed great quantity of fumes/ and flux of the womb They that be hanged in the air till they be purged of superflue humours/ among grapes been the best/ and be of most subtle nourishing/ and neither cause winds nor fumes. They that be kept in must or sudden wine be though to digest/ and be lest behoveful to the stomach/ and torn to course humours/ and cause inflation and fumes because of strounge humours that they take in the must and sudden wine. There be grapes that have no thick substance of meet in them/ but only clear & thin liquor. Other have moche substance & meat. They that have no thick substance breed more kindly humours than they that have. But they nourish less. And therefore the grapes that have most thick substance nourisheth most but they be harder to digest. The diversity of grapes is yet better praised in other manners/ by their savours/ their bigness and their colour. The savour of grapes may be watery/ or like smell of elders as gross sweet werysshevesses/ or savoured like honey/ or mean as taste of wine only The grape that hath a gross sweet savour is of gross/ and werysshe nourishing & hot/ and causeth thirst/ and is hard to digest/ and caused wind and hurling in the belly/ and stoppeth the liver and the milt. The grape that hath a subtile watery savour is colder/ and of lighter digestion/ and comforteth the stomach/ and cleanseth choleric humours/ & suageth thirst. And the most temperate grapes to the body is they that have a mean savour. For as they have a mean savour/ so they have mean operations.  
¶ The diversities of colours in grapes is four for some be white and clear/ & watery with small substance of thickness thin husks/ and small kernels. There be that have black colour and thick substance/ and big kernels. Some be of a dim brown colour/ mean between white and black. The white be of light nourishing/ and light digestion/ and thyrleth all the veins/ and provoketh urine. They that be black be hard to digest but they comfort the stomach/ and provoke none urine/ and if they be well digested they nourish well and moche. They that be brown mean between white and black/ and be mean also in operation between them both. And Arystotle saith that the white and subtile grape nourisheth least. But it is soon digested by drunkenness that it causeth/ & so is not the black because it is thicker. The drunkenness of the brown and citrine be mean/ and it is a general rule that of all wines that drunkenness cometh lightly/ in like wise it gooth lightly. And if drunkenness be long in coming it is long in goyuge.   

¶ De vite allba. Ca CCCC. lxx.  
VItis alba is a weed that spreadeth on hedges in height & quality. Here shall no more be spoken of it for there is enough spoken of it in the chapter of vite cella/ that is all one.   

¶ De Vulfago. Ca CCCC. lxxij.  
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Wlfago is hot & dry in the third degree. Some call it hogs meat and mollum terre. It groweth in unlabored places and in hills/ and is in manner of a tuberosyte or exerescence/ as it were haveth or shrubs the which the bigger they be the better they are. The rote thereof hath great virtue dry and green/ but the green is the best. And it ought to be gathered in the end of september/ and cloven in quarters/ and hanged on threads/ in shadow places/ or a little in the son. It may be kept three years. It hath virtue to louse or unbind.  

¶ For hemorrhoids. A  
¶ For hemorrhoids swollen & not running appearing out lay the powder thereof on them the powder of black hellebore/ & dry roses. Or else make a clystre or suppository with the said powdres/ or blow it thereon in this manner/ put the powder at the end of a quill or read/ & bind a bladder at the other end full of wind/ and blow it in so upon the sores. A certain woman of Salerne proved that it is good for the bite of the fundament called ficus or hemorrhoids.   

¶ For the flowers. B  
¶ To provoke flowers/ and to cleanse the matryce. Tempre trifera magna in oil of vyolettes or of olives & seethe it on the fire with vulfago and wete cotton therein and make a suppository   

¶ For costiveness. C  
¶ For costiveness or straightness caused of cold phlegm. Put the juice of the rote in oil and seethe it therein and lay it plasterwise thereto.   

¶ For fever quartain. D  
¶ For fever quartain/ take this rote and beat it with seed of arache/ than seethe it in wine to the half/ and give it to the patient before the hour of his access/ and let him abstain drink the most that he may But after give him a little wine & cause him to sleep.   

¶ For the milt. E  
¶ Against the pain of the milt/ cleanse the rote thereof/ and beat it/ put it in wine and oil xu days/ than strain it & seethe it with wax/ and a little vinegar till it wax thick as an ointment/ it is of great effycace/ but the mollyfycatyves ought to be before/ and than anoint it with this/ or do it with the juice/ or with the powder with wax and oil. This hath been proved of times. The woman of salerne gather vulfago the last thursday of the wane of the moon and lay it to the milt/ and they cleave it in three parts with an axe upon the thressholde of the pacyentes' door/ demanding him what seekest thou/ the patient answereth/ my milt/ & than they hang it in the smoke saying this wise. As the parties of vulfago drieth so drieth the milt of this man Than they anoint the milt with the ointment aforesaid.   

¶ For aposteme. F  
¶ Against aposteme of cold matter/ that can not break for the thickness of the skin Stamp vulfago and seethe it in oil and lay it hoot thereon and it will purge it inward or outward.   

¶ For fistula. G  
¶ Against fistula make a tent of this rote and put into it and it make the entering wider. And if there be any venom it will draw it/ or at least dispose the place that it may be broken with instruments. The powder hereof corrodeth and wasteth over grown flesh.   

¶ For polype H  
¶ Against polype that is in the nose/ prit this powder in a quyll/ and blow it in to the nose.    

¶ De Verbena v● sacra herba. Ca CCCC. lxxiij.  
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VErbena is an herb of two manners. The one groweth crooked/ & is named centrum galli/ the other right up and is named gallanatica vel verbena/ & they both have long sedes and a long and a thin rote/ and is very dry of complexion and shall be used to flowing and moisty wounds and to old ulcerarye and sores.  

¶ Against the chynke cough and the yellow jaundices. A  
¶ This rote drunken with wine is good against the iaundys'/ and helpeth moche against chink cough: ¶ Verbena stamped & laid on the wounds plasterwise healeth and drieth the wounds anon.  
¶ The juice drunken with wine driveth away all the imposening from the body. ¶ The leaves and the rote sudden in wine & drunken is good against the fever tertian ¶ A dram of those leaves laid in wine the time of four days and than holden in the mouth healeth the apostumations in the mouth.   

¶ Against tertian & qurtayne fevers. B  
Take three leaves & three roots steeped in wine a hole night and drunken thereof when the fevers beginneth to come/ the fevers shall cease. And for the fever quartayne take iiij. leaves and four roots like afore said.   

¶ For the matryce. C  
¶ Water drunken where as it is sudden in cleanseth the matryce/ and doth come the flowers/ as Paulus said.   

¶ For the eyes. D  
¶ The juice of it meddled with juice of fenel and put in the eyen/ cleanseth them and causeth a clear sight.   

¶ For the stone. E  
¶ This herb with the rote stampeth and drunken driveth out the stone. prbatunest.    

¶ De ungula caballyna little clote. Ca CCCC. lxxiiij.  
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VNgula caballina/ is an herb and hath broad leaves like nenufar but his leaves been green within & white without  

¶ For running sores. A  
¶ The leaves laid on running sores or ulcerations healeth them. And also it is good for children that have running eyes or sore heeds.   

¶ For brenning. B  
¶ The leaves laid on it that is burneth with fire or with other things it pulleth the brenning out/ & causeth to heel. The juice thereof hath the same virtue like the herb.   

¶ Against spots brenneth of the son. C  
The juice meddled with juice of fumiter & the place anointed therewith. It causeth also the skin that is scabby to be fair & clean    

¶ De Vua versa. Ca CCCC. lxxv.  
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Wa versa is cold and moynst in the second degree/ and the herb and the rote may be used in medicyns. And is good for th●m that hath great heat without and within the body/ but it causeth melancholy and therefore the melancolyce and other persons that been cold and moisty of complexion must take heed for to use the herb or rote. Women that eat or drink of this herb getteth the sekeness● named manya that is a manner of a frenzy. Therefore women that hath a cold and moisty brain must principally take heed for it/ for it causeth more coldness and moistness.    


¶ De xilocratbius. Ca CCCC. lxxvi.  
XIlocrates be small fruits that groweth nowhere but sury and have a sweetness meddled with stypticite. And their substance is hard in manner of wood and of evil digestion. But when they be green they be laxative and grieve the stomach but the dry ones do less grief. And the cause that the green be laxative and not the dry/ is because the moistness of them is sharp/ the which moistness drieth & their substance waxeth earthy in manner of wood/ and causeth the body to bind and to provoke urine. But they have a great malice/ for they abide to long in the stomach/ wherefore if they be customably eaten they engender colic passion. And Galyen saith. I would the xilocrates should never come out of sury. For in the country that the grow they be laxative/ and when they come here they bind and grieve the body. Probatumest.    


¶ De zinzibre. Gynger. Ca CCCC. lxxvij  
ZInziber is gynger. It is hot in the third degree/ and moist in the first. Some say that it is the rote of a tree/ and some say that it is wood/ but the troth is that it is a rote of a tree growing in Slauony. The wine that it is sudden in with fygues and great raisins is good against cough causeth of cold/ and against coldness of the breast. Powdre of gynger put in figs is good for the same  

¶ For the stomach. A  
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¶ Wine that gynger is sudden in with common is good for the stomach pained with cold and wind/ & causeth good digestion   

¶ For costiveness. B  
¶ Against costiveness lay the powder of gynger on the fundament with cotton.   

¶ For the heart. C  
¶ The said powdres put in meats is good against weakness of the heart and swooning. It may be kept two years. And it keepeth better with pepper than other wise. There be two manners of gynger. One is wild & another tame. The wild is brown and hath a right sharp taste & is very stiff and hard. The tame is white and is not so sharp and pricking and is not so hard. And when it is broken the parts meddle together/ by small strings or threads/ and so doth not the wild but very little or nothing.    

¶ De Zedoare. Setwale. Ca CCCC. lxxviij.  
ZEdoare is the rote of an herb and is hot in the third degree and dry in the first. The tame is to be choose that is yellow/ and staineth  depiction of plant the hands as saffron/ and aught to have a sharp taste/ and not to be full of holes It may be kept ten years  

¶ For the cough. A  
¶ The wine that Setwale is sudden in is good against the cough causeth of cold and against pain of the stomach caused of wind or cold.   

¶ For the matryce. B  
¶ A tent or suppository made of the powder of setwale/ with a confection called trifera magna chauffeth the matryce and cleanseth it.   

¶ For appetite. C  
¶ Sauce made of setwale with rosm●ry toasted bred and vinegar causeth appetite and putteth the smell of garlic out of the mouth/ and the smack of wine. It is also good against venom and biting of venomous beasts.   

¶ For the heart. D  
¶ The powder put in meats comforteth the heart. And therefore it is good for them that have weak hearts/ and be disposed to swooning/ and also it is good against worms in the womb.    

¶ Zizania. Ray/ drawke/ darnel. Ca CCCC. lxxix.  
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ZIzania is an evil weed that groweth in the wheat/ and corrupteth when the weather is dry. It hath strong virtue and a sharp savour/ and is somewhat venomous/ & trowbleth the heed and the brain/ and sometime breedeth drunkenness.  

¶ For conception. A  
¶ If it be meddled with meal of barley/ myrre●encens/ and saffron/ and make a smoke of it and let women receive it beneath at the private it ableth them to conceive.   

¶ For tetters. B  
¶ If it be meddled with raw saffron and vinegar/ it is good against tetters and ring worms.   

¶ For kernels. C  
¶ If it be sudden in wine with dung of an ass and line seed it helpeth to spread hard apostumes and kernelle in the neck if it be laid plasterwise thereto.   

¶ For rotten wounds. D  
¶ The rote and the husks sudden together is good to cleanse wounds full of filth.    

¶ De Zipulis. Frytures. Ca CCCC. lxxx.  
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ZIpules be fryters made of meal and oil. It is a course meat for owo causes. One for the moistness of the oil/ and the other for heaviness of the meal/ and therefore they be grievous to the liver/ milt/ & reins because they breed thick flewmes that stoppeth the veins of the liver/ and who that will eat them without malice & inconuences aforesaid must eat them with honey. But yet they that have any disease in the liver or milt/ let them eat none for the be noyful as is aforesoyde.  

¶ For tooth ache. A  
Stamp mustar sede with honey and vinegar holden in the mouth. And also it is good for all pain and diseases of the stomach and lungs.   

¶ For memory. B  
¶ The juice drunken fasting causeth a good memory.    

¶ De Succaro. Sugar Ca CCCC. lxxxi  
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ZVccarus is sugar. It is hot & moist temperately. And Isaac saith that it is hot in the beginning of the first degree and moist in the mids. And saith that it wasteth choleric humours because it unbindeth the womb And the laxing that it maketh is without rottenness/ or brenning/ because it moisteth the womb. How be it if it be given to them that be of choleric complexion/ it changeth in them to hot choleric humours for the sweetness thereof. For as sour things delayeth the sharpness of choleric humours/ so sweet things that have contrary savour and eager nourisheth and increaseth colere. These be the sayings of Isaac of sugar. The said author saith that sugar is hot and moist temperately in the first degree. It hath virtue to cool/ to moist/ to nourish/ and to soften. If two pound of sugar be put in syrups or drinks there must be a pound of water/ and if more be put it forceth not but that it must seethe the longer to waste the water. The sugar is made of cans in manner of bowl rushes/ which is full of sweet pith/ and it is called the honey can It groweth in spain and cycylle. And sugar is made at midsummer in this manner. The people of that country take these cans or bowl rushes/ whithe be like reeds/ but that reeds is hollow within/ and these cans be stiff and full of sweet pith. They cut them in small pieces/ and stamp them and seethe them with a sokyn fire in a cowdron till it waxeth thick/ and is clean scummed. & of the said scum the naughty conutrefayte sugar is made/ for it is lighter than the good/ and is full of holes and pits within. And therefore when so will choose a sugar loaf/ cleave it in the mids/ and if ye find it full of hooles/ and pits within and that the taste be not very sweet/ and that it crasshe not between the teeth it is not right sugar/ but is countrefayte. Of the grounds of the cowdron/ & that is thick when the water is sudden the which when it is almost cold is put in round vessels and set in the son/ with the heat of the son/ and of the seething it waxeth white and hard and that is the best. Sugar may be kept .v. years in a place not to dry nor to moist. Sugar is put in many medicines and confyetures/ and specially in them that be made for sharp diseases/ and chiefly that whice is whitest/ is the coldest. There is reed sugar and it is very hot/ and is called sugar mellum/ and it is so reed for fault of perfit/ and good seething/ and is made by water that is cast thereon/ and is put in pots when it is of the fire. This reed sugar ought not to be put in medicines for fevers ague. But if it be sudden with vinegar till it be parched and put in suppository of fever ague. Sugar is good for them that be dry by the way. ¶ It is good for them that be left with sickness/ and that be short breathed by dryth of the breast/ and it ought for to be put in their drinks nor meats for it will cause them to gather flesh and keep them moist.    

¶ Here after followeth a rehearsal of divers chapters which before hath not been specified concerning divers causes of medicines needful to the behoof of man.  

¶ Abrotanum latin/ grece/ Hesum Arabice. Ca CCCC. lxxxij.  
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ABrotanum is of two kinds as Serapius saith. The male and female & is both one in form and verrtue/ but the female hath yellow flowers like the saffron. And is hot in the first degree/ & dry in the second as Auicenna saith. Plinius saith. It hath good smelling flowers/ and many stalks and little leaves.  

¶ For a bald heed A  
¶ Powdre burned of the herb/ mydled with oil of Rafanus/ & therewith anointed the heed caused the hears to grow.   

For paralysye▪ B  
¶ Wine drunken with the powder preserveth a body for the disease na●●d pa●●i●sye/ or the gowre.   

¶ Against cold in the heed. C  
¶ Platearius saith. The heed anointed with oil where it is sudden in/ taketh away the cold/ and warmedie.   

¶ Against the stomach. D  
¶ Wine meddled with sugar where it is sudden in/ warmeth the stomach/ & purgeth the phlegm.   

¶ For the matryce. E  
¶ Wine drunken where it is sudden in cleanseth the matryce in women.   

¶ Against the stone F  
¶ The herb sudden with apium and sugar and so used/ breaketh the stone in the bladder and reins. And is good for all diseases coming of cold.   

¶ For to piss: G  
¶ The belly anointed underneath the navel with oil of it openeth the conduits and causeth well to piss.   

¶ Against venom. H  
¶ The herb drunken with wine is good for empoisoning. The fume of it expelleth all serpents out of the houses and whatsoever there abideth dieth.   

¶ For menstrue I  
¶ Wine meddled with this powder/ and with myrra/ drunken causeth the flower in women/ and openeth the conduits of the matryce.   

¶ Against colic passion. K  
¶ It used/ wasteth the moisty humours in the bowels called colic passion.   

¶ Against the eyen. L  
¶ white breed and the herb sudden in water/ and therewith bathed the eyes withdraweth the heat and swelling of them.   

¶ For the long. M  
¶ The herb meddled with liquorice/ ysope/ and sudden in wine or water/ make it sweet with sugar/ and so drunken/ is very good for all diseases of the long and breast/ ●●an the sickness cometh of cold/ the breast shall be anointed without/ with a salve named unguentum dyalthea/ and than shall be taken pylles of agarycus/ & after is good to use a confection of dyapenidion or dyiairi salamonis.   

¶ For fever. N  
¶ The herb stamped with oil/ and laid on feet and hands is good for them.    

¶ Arbour glandis latin. Hullus Arabice Anoken tree. Ca CCCC. lxxxiij.  
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Arbour glandis/ an oak tree. Serapius (libro aggregatoris capitulo hullus i arbour glandis) saith/ all that cometh of the tree is stopping of his nature and principally the inner rind between the tree & utermoost rind. How the shells of okers be used/ of his nature stoppeth & cooleth.  

¶ ¶ For flux of menstrue. A  
¶ The okers eaten stoppeth the long & excessive flux in women/ and chiefly water drunken there the middle rind is sudden in/ or therewith bathed/ and the fume of it helpeth moche▪   

¶ For fresh wounds. B  
¶ The leaves stamped & laid on a fresh wound reyoyneth them so that it needeth not to be sown. And also putteth out the heat of hot apostumes or blains.   

¶ For running sores. C  
¶ Water where wood of the tree is sudden in and drunken with wine is good for running sores/ & chiefly for them that speteth blood.   

¶ For menstrue. D  
¶ Fumyged the orifice of women with water where the leaves is sudden in/ helpeth & stoppeth the long excessive flux in women   

¶ For paralysye. E  
¶ Wine drunken with powder of okers ceaseth the gout paralysy/ and driveth ●t out through the urine.   

For impostumes. F  
¶ The leaves laid on impostume taketh away the hotness and healeth them.   

¶ For empoisoning. G  
¶ The rote sudden with cows milk & drunken is good for empoisoning medicines.    

¶ Gallitricum agreste  
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¶ Gallitricum agreste is an herb to be used to the eyes & hath the virtue like the very gallitricum/ but it serveth not ta the fevers. And the masters saith the same virtue as doth verbena.   

¶ Bos. An ox. Ca CCCC. lxxxiiij.  
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BOs is an ox and a be'st well known to every man. The broth of ox's flesh comforteth and strength more a body/ than flesh of any other beasts having four fetes. And therefore it is very profitable for seek persons. ¶ Plinius. There is nothing on the ox but it is very profitable for the use of mankind.  

¶ For pain of the yoyntes. A  
¶ The dung of an ox meddled with vinegar laid on the grievous place suageth the swelling and ceaseth the pain easily   

¶ For apostumes B  
¶ That aforesaid also sucketh and pulleth out the matter like a drawing plaster/ when it is laid thereon/ and healeth them without hurting and taketh out the heat of the member that shall be fiery and moche grieveth.   

¶ For heat. C  
¶ For heat swelling the water distilled of an ox dung is very good. And chiefly for the eyen anointed therewith. The horns and skin is also profitable in using of a man.    

¶ Cantarydes latin & grece Terarie veltrane Arabyce. Ca CCCC. lxxxv.  
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CAntarides been worms somewhat long/ green of colour/ and been hot & dry in the third degree/ & they be found of the fills among the frumentes and other grains/ as wheat/ ryge/ when it groweth and flowereth/ and is profitable to many things/ & be killed with fumigation coming of vinegar.  

¶ For biles in the body. A  
¶ This stamped & laid on the grievous place maketh them plain/ and causeth them to fall of.   

¶ For urine. B  
¶ Cantarydes drunken with wine causeth well to piss. Cantarides shall be chosen that is found in the wheat.   

¶ For impostumes. C  
¶ Cantarides be used for to make an aposteme/ and to open it/ and to cause holes therein that it needeth not to be cut open nor to be burned open with cauteries/ or other instruments of iron.   

¶ For swelling. D  
¶ Half a dram of cantarides powdered middled with books blood/ & mastic/ and    

¶ Capra a goat. Ca CCCC. lxxxuj.  
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CApra is a be'st light of mind/ springing and running quickly sharp of light and smelling and diligent for to get his meat. And seeketh his meat after with sygt/ smelling and savour. They get the age of xii years & no more and been lechery at his uttermost age.  

¶ For the stone. A  
¶ The urine drunken driveth out the stone   

¶ For the piping in the ear. B  
¶ Urine warm putted in the ears wasteth the piping of them but the urine of bockes is better.   

¶ For the stone. C  
¶ The bockes' blood dried and powdered meddled with other medicines is chiefly good for the stone. The flesh of a young bocke is very good meat/ and lightly to digest.    

¶ Cancer. A crevys. Ca CCCC. lxxxvij.  
CAncer is good for seek persons & principally for them that be sore grieved with heat.  

¶ The skin to cleanse. A  
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¶ Powdre of the eyen of crevys myxted with vinegar & put therein salt water till it be like milk/ and it liketh unguento albo/ that is white salve/ and is found at the potecaryse/ which drieth and healeth all sores anon.   

¶ For the lungs. B  
¶ The broth is good for pain in the lungs named perypleumonia or consuming of man called ptilis because when a person hath a swelling about the lungs than he becometh to dryness and consuming of the natural moisture till he dieth.    

¶ Columba a dove. Ca cccc. lxxxviij.  
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COlumba is a bird dwelling among mankind but the turtle dove dwelleth liefer in the fields and dry trees only The flesh of turtle doves is ill meat for a man/ because they have often the falling sickness named epilencia/ whereby a person might get any disease causing great herme to himself. But the other dove's been not all wholesome neither. And a seek person shall not eat of them. The blood under his right wing/ is good in medicines  

¶ For the eyes A  
¶ The same blood dropped warm in the eyes wasteth the web therein.   

¶ For impostumes. B  
¶ The blood put in open blains or inpostumes healeth them.    

¶ Caseus. Cheese. Ca CCCC. lxxxix.  
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Cheese is a meat not well dygestyfe and doth great harm to them that hath a hard liver and milt. Cheese much eate● doth increase the stone in the bladder/ therefore saith the excellent master Constantyn. The cheese is not good eaten for religious persons dwelling in monasteries/ but the cheese which is fresh & mylky is better to eat.  

¶ For purgation: A  
¶ The weigh of cheese is good for seek persons it comforteth & laxeth without harm and causeth temperately purgation. The weigh shall be made of the best sheep cheese that may be. Cheese moche salted causeth many sickness and ill accidents in a man. first it engendereth the stone in the bladder/ and letteth to piss/ & causeth the stomach slimy and without appetite/ and suppleth the heed with ill humours and accidents. Therefore every person shall take heed for to much using of cheese/ for to restrain sickness/ and preserve himself in health.    

¶ De Siligo. Rye   depiction of plant 
¶ Siligo Rye nourisheth more than the barley And the breed baken of rye nourisheth less than wheat breed. the breed of rye is better for them that is in good health than for seek folk/ for it causeth strength in a holsam body/ & dyseaseth in a seek body. The wheat breed is only good for seek bodies. Brede of rye is not good for them that hath a cold stomach for they may not digest it. Take heed of eaten all manner of breed that is not baken well for it causeth many diseases in the body.   depiction of four goat-like animals (short, backward-curving horns; cloven hooves) 
EDus is a be'st/ and his flesh is of goog nourishing/ breeding good blood/ & is good to digest. Isidorus saith This be'st is well tempered in the four qualities/ as in heat/ cold/ moistness & dryness.  

¶ For biting of a mad dog. A  
¶ The skin laid warm on the biting of a mad dog ceaseth them. ¶ The smoke coming when the heres be brent driveth away all wenymos beasts & serpents.    

¶ Lepus an hare Ca CCCC. xci.  
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LEpus is a be'st. And of all beasts is none flesh which causeth so heavy blood and melancholy as doth the flesh of the hare  

¶ For trembly of the body. A  
¶ The brain roasted and eaten is good for the same passion/ and happeth often after a sickness.   

¶ For empoisoning. B  
¶ The gall drunken with vinegar is good for empoisoning and venom.   

¶ For the stone. C  
¶ The powder burned of a quick ha●e and drunken with wine is very good for the stone ¶ For to do grow the teeth in young children. The brain of it anointed on the chyke of a young child causeth the teeths to come out without pain. Of this be'st saith Pandecta moche in his lvi chapter    

¶ Pira. Peres. Ca CCCC. xcij.   depiction of plant 
PIra peers been fruits of two kinds. The tame & the wild. the tame or comen peres causeth moistness/ & when they be eaten roasted or sudden they conforthe the stomach. The wild peers stoppeth and noyeth the stomach. the great tame peers been better used in meats than the little/ but the little peers nourisheth more when they be eaten raw than the great.  
Platearius saith Peres much eaten causeth pain in the bowels and noyeth them Auicenna. It is good to drink strong wine/ and use some spice as pepper cinnamon after eating of peers/ for peers causeth pain in the bowels/ which is named colic passion.  

¶ For the womb A  
¶ Dyascorides saith Peres dressed in meet and so eaten comforteth and weykeneth the womb. ¶ Auicenna. The wild peers been colder of nature than the tame. And the juice of both used before dinner stoppeth the belly/ and used after dinner laxeth the belly. Versus. Ante cibum stipant/ post cibum corpora laxant.   

¶ For vomit B  
¶ Peres stamped and sudden in water/ & laid without on the stomach/ restraineth the vomit coming of the reed colera.   

¶ Against pain in the belly. C  
¶ hippocras saith/ after the eating of peers shall be drunken good strong wine against the pain in the belly.    

¶ Poma. Apples Ca CCCC. xciij.  
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POma apples been of divers kinds Rabbi moyses. The apples specially/ the tame comforteth the heart with his sweet odour. And they be good for them that hath the passy ptysy● that is to understand that a man consumed and drieth out and is principally good for melancolic persons. ¶ Apples eaten raw doth more diseases than any other fruits/ for they causeth ill humours through all the membres. There been sweet apples and they been warm and dry of nature. Some been watery/ sour/ and eager of taste/ and cold of complexion. ¶ The juice of those divers apples may not be kept/ but alone the juice of quynces'/ and it confyct with honey and sugar/ and with other good spices it endureth the longer.   

¶ Pirola. Ca CCCC. xciiij.  
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PIrola is a herb hot and dry in the third degree/ and shall be used on the body without. ¶ A very good and profitable salve/ which master Bartholomeus used to all manners of old sores. This herb taken with his xote & stamped/ than put thereto the juice of Dyapensyn/ the juice of alchimilla/ & oil olive sudden together/ and thereof make a salve. This salve shall be divided in three parts/ and every part shallbe given his colour. ¶ Put in the first spenysshe green/ Aristologia rotunda/ or longa/ and that become green/ and it cleanseth the wound/ & taketh out the ill flesh from the ground on the wound/ and is named a pulling salve. Put to the other salve Ceruse/ the eyes of kreeffysshe powdered/ and they shallbe come white/ & this softeneth & healeth all ulceracyons/ & is called a mollyfycatyfe/ and a softing salve. Put to the third salve bolus armenus/ sanguis draconis/ and they becometh reed/ & this salve preserveth the wounds fro ill hot/ and that to the wound may not come ill accedentes when the wound is anointed round about therewith. And this salve is called a defensive salve.   

¶ Rybes. ca cccc. xcv.  
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Ribs been reed berries/ growing in a little small tree/ of height of ii gerdes. Those berries been cold and dry in the third degree This berries quenchyth very well the thirst caused of heat of the gall/ & stoppeth the flux in the womb.  

¶ For appetite. A  
¶ The berries cause appetyt to eat & drink The juice of it is good used for scakinge of the heart/ and restraineth the vomit.   

¶ For heat. B  
¶ To eat the berries/ and to drink the juice thereof is very good to them that hath over moche heat/ for it cooleth moche. An electuary made of this is very good to them that to grieveth with heat.   

¶ For the little Pocks. C  
¶ The juice of it with water of endyvye is good for the children pocks and m●ss●les varioli and morbilli.   

¶ For thirst. D  
¶ The berries sudden with water of sugar/ is good for thirst/ & against the pestilence.   

¶ For drunkenness. E  
¶ This aforesaid drink preserveth for dronkenesse/ & also against the flux called flu●●s emo●roydalis.    

¶ Vsnea. vel muscus arborum. Mosse● ca cccc. xcvi.  
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VSnea is of divers manners/ some groweth on trees of good odour/ as garnates'/ and otherlike/ and it is by himself of good odour/ and it is to be chosen for the best/ it is hot in the first degree and dry in the second/ and comforteth the stomach. Some moss groweth on the oaken trees/ and on other trees. Some groweth on stones.  

¶ For sleep. A  
¶ Wine drunken where as it is sudden in causeth well to sleep. It stoppeth all manners of flux of blood.   

For the matryce. B  
¶ A bathe where it is sudden in taketh away all pains of the matrice/ when a woman bathe therein from under upward/ & stoppeth in women the white flux/ when they bathe them beneath therewith.   

¶ For pain in the matryce. C  
¶ Drink/ or water that moss and arthemisia is sudden in cleanseth the matryce of all pain and diseases/ and the fume of it taken beneath to the orifice/ is very good for the same.    

¶ De Cardone benedicto. Sowthistle. Ca CCCC. xcvij.  
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CArdo benedictus is an herb like Camelionte. It is called the holy thystle/ whereof is spoken of afore But the leaves be whiter/ & thendrer/ pricking/ and in the top is two stalks with two little sharp heeds and the seed groweth in them. The which seed is round and the flower is on the top of the said heeds/ and is somewhat reed.  

¶ For spitting of blood. A  
¶ For them that spette blood at the mouth out of the belly and stomach/ and against the pain thereof. Bete the rote to small powder and drink it with wine.   

¶ For the urine. B  
¶ Against let of urine as strangury & dyssury/ drink the wine or water that it is sudden in/ and it will do great ease. Also the leaves chopped and sudden in wine and laid to the share is good for the same.   

¶ For blueness of strokes. C  
¶ Against blueness that cometh of beating or otherwise. This herb sudden and laid to it taketh it away. ¶ For tooth ache keep the wine that the rote is sudden in a great while in your mouth.    

¶ Vulpis is a fox. Ca CCCC. xcviij.  
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Wlpis is a subtle be'st/ for when he is hounted/ than he keepeth his tail between his legs/ that he should not let him in his ronning/ and when he seeth that the dogs been more him/ than he pisseth in his tail/ and striketh in the eyen of the dogs/ which stench and smart they may not suffer/ and than they let him alone/ and run no more after.  

¶ For the cramp. A  
¶ Membres that hath the cramp and anointed with fox grese helpeth them.   

¶ For the stone. B  
¶ The blood of the fox dried and powdered and so drunken is good for the stone in the reins and bladder.   

¶ For the gout: C  
¶ The fox eaten or distilled is very good for them that hath the arthritic and gout in the membres.    

¶ Citrum. A tree so named. Ca cccc. xcix.  
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CItrum is cold & dry in the second degree/ the sedes been bitter of savour & is also called citrum/ and is of three manners. The first is the principal sedes within/ and is eager of taste like vinegar. The second is in the midst between the seed and the shell or bark/ and is moist of nature. The third is the shell and is warm & dry of nature/ & is to be used in medicines.  

¶ For good breath. A  
¶ wash the mouth with the water where the shells hath been sudden in/ and than shalt have a good breath.   

¶ For mottes' magottis or worms. B  
¶ The shells laid among clothes of linen or / it preserveth for the same.   

¶ For stinking. C  
¶ The shells laid on a place or in a chamber preserveth them for stinking/ and ill air as Auicenna saith.   

¶ For the stomach: D  
¶ The wine drunken with the powder helpeth the stomach and liver.   

¶ For fleeing of the skin. E  
¶ For fleeing of the skin coming of labouring/ going/ rubbing/ or shabbes/ anointed the grievous place with vngu●●tum citrinum healeth them properly/ and serveth also to all hot apostumes/ in likewise doth the white salve.    

¶ Vua pass. Rasyns of carans. ca ccccc.  
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Wa pass is hot and moist of complexion. The people of Salerne order them in this manner. They take the grapes/ and let them dry in the son/ and than they put them in an oven/ and than they gathereth the best and wash them with sweet wine/ and straw thereon powder of Cinnamon/ and other spices/ and let them dry again.  

¶ For the cough. A  
¶ Wine drunken where it is sudden in wasteth the old cough coming of cold. And it so used/ is good also for apostumes inwardly in the breast and long.   

¶ For flux of the womb. B  
¶ It used in meat taketh away the belging of the stomach/ and stoppeth the flux in the belly. In what manner they be used it breedeth good blood/ and used in meats restraineth the vomit.   

¶ For the stomach. C  
¶ They that been very sweet ceaseth the pain in the stomach. Therefore it used profiteth more to the stomach than the fyggues. It doth also good effect to the liver.   

¶ For old and fresh wounds a very good experiment. D  
¶ Master Wylhelmus writeth in his surgery to make a salve for old & fresh wounds. Take yaron or millefolium/ carthaphilago/ dyapensia/ and seethe them together in water till it is soft/ and the water most wasted/ than strain it through a linen cloth/ and put therein fenugreek meal/ and make it thick like past. Than meddle it with tallow of a book/ and clean grese of a gilted bore/ of each like moche and oil olive half so mooche/ seethe this together a little by the fire than put thereto some wax and make a salve. ¶ This salve is good for fresh & old unclean wounds:    

¶ Vibex a byrten tree. Ca CCCCC. i.   depiction of plant 
VIbex is a byrthen tree his branches been hot and dry in the third degree. ¶ For running sores and ulceracyons wash with the water where the leaves is sudden in/ it will/ cleanse and help them.  
¶ The rind brenneth and fumed therewith a sore on leg drieth and healeth them.  

¶ For ill flesh. A  
¶ The rind powdered and strawed on an unclean wound cleanseth them/ and taketh away the ill flesh.   

¶ For ill air B  
¶ The rind burned in a house that the fume come through all the house/ the fume wasteth and consumeth all ill air/ as it often happeth in time of the pestilence.    

¶ Ydropiper. Ca CCCCC: two.  
YDropiper liketh mentastro but it hath tender and brother leaves This leaves and rote taken in the mouth hath odour and taste like the pepper and the sedes of it liketh the unripe wine berries/ and the herb is better than the rote.  

For the eyen. A  
 depiction of plant  
¶ The herb and rote sudden in water and laid on the eye taketh away the ill humours from them/ which is called lyppotomia. The herb is all most like pepper in his nature/ the herb and sedes fresh & green been better in medicines than dry.   

¶ For pympels & spyttes. B  
¶ With juice anoyted the pympels & spyttes on the body in the morning & evening vasteth them in three days.   

¶ For the eyen. C  
¶ The herb stamped in a mortar & laid on the eye is very profitable for to cleanse the fyltnesse of the eyen.   

¶ For the worm in the finger. D  
¶ The herb with the skin of an herd egg which is between the utermoost shell and the egg will kill surely the worm in them.    

¶ Ynguirialis. Ca CCCCC. iij.  
YNguirialis is an herb that groweth in stony rotches and hard earth/ and hath stars which shine so bright/ that many persons think that it were of the devils works. Galen saith Some call it herb of toads/ or  depiction of plant herb of rats/ for it is a great medicine for the toads and wild rats/ and is called in latin Bubonium. And some ro●es & wild rats been dwelling on the stony rotches and other places where this herb groweth/ because when a toad is hurt of a spyner than she swelleth so thick/ that she doth think to barste and die/ than she fetcheth of this herb and healeth again And when a wild rat is hurt so sorry that she may not get the herb by himself than another rat fetcheth it/ and bringeth to the seek rat/ and she taketh in his mouth and is hole thereof. And more other venomous beasts been preserved and hole by this herb.   

¶ Yacea. Herba clavellata. Torqea. Marefolon. Ca CCCCC. iiij.  
YAcea is an herb having stalks like the remainder/ & much sharp leaves/ bearing flowers of three manners/ yellow/ blewe/ & white It is profitable to many things/ and the herb be used in medicines/ & the rote seldom  

¶ For ill humours. A  
¶ Wine drunken where it is sudden in wasteth  depiction of plant the ill humours in a body/ and taketh away the scabs and all manners of ulceracyons.   

¶ For herispilla. B  
¶ When the children have the scabs herispillam/ or other scabs/ take a little of this herb and cut it and put in her meat or pap. Or give them to drink the water stilled of the herb/ the child will be hole without fault. ¶ Against ill humours which abideth long between the skin & the flesh. The herb with flowers of camomile & alchymylla of each like moche.    

¶ Scamonea. Ca CCCCC. v.  
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SCamonea latin and arabic●●yagridion grece. Serapio saith it is a tree with many branches growing of one rote/ and on the branches is hanging a slimy water like plum. The leaves of it is three square/ and beareth white round flowers/ hollow like pipes/ having a strong odour. This tree hath a white rote/ big as a thumb/ and hath also a strong odour. The rote is full of milk/ & milk is gathered thus. The rind of the rote is cut or wounded with sharp knives or other instruments/ and round about is made a holl in the earth and there be set divers vessels/ wherein the milk distilleth or droppeth/ and than it is taken and keep/ & this liquor is dried/ and it is named scamonea. The best scamonea is clear & soft slybbery like the matter that is pured of an oxces' skin. It is like a spounge/ and is gathered in Ind and Asye in an isle of Ind named Musie/ there groweth it in great quantity. Scamony is often contrefayted with milk of the herb of catapucie it used killeth a man or woman. ¶ Some taketh the milk of the herb of catapucie meddled with barley meal and make it like scamonea/ but that is not good and shall not be used in medicines. Some masters saith scamonea coming out of Senisz or Palestyna is not good/ for that is made and myxted of barley meal/ and milk of tintinall. Galienus & master Paulus saith Scamonea is hot and dry almost in the third degree. Scamonea shall be prepareth first or it be used in medicines because scamonea of his nature is perilous to use and doth great hurt to the stomach and liver/ and taketh from a man his appetite to eat/ causing great harm in the body And therefore scamonea must be rertyfyeth in the manner following. The masters saith/ scamonea retaineth his ill qualites the time of xxx or xl years or more/ but when it is rectified it loseth the evilness causing not so great harm. Therefore it shall be rectified or it be used in medicines and not with his proper qualities/ for it causeth and bringeth many diseases/ as cold sweat/ swymeling/ fayntnesses/ or other fluxus in the body/ & at the last to die.  

¶ For rectefye the scamonea.  
¶ Take a quince apple and cut of the upper paring/ and than make therein a hole and put therein scamonea/ than lay the cutting part or covering again on the apple and close them in dought and put it so in an oven/ which is temperately hot/ and let it than abide therein half a day/ & the scamonea shall be prepared in the apple/ and his illness taken away/ and it shall do after that no harm.   

¶ For to know scamonea.  
¶ The best scamonea is to be known by the properties following. The first that clear is of colour. The second when it is middled with spettell and become like milk/ than it is good/ if it be not so it is falsed & contrefayted. The third when it lightly breaketh and powdreth. The fourth when it is light of weight. The .v. when it smelleth well. The scamonea having not these proprieties is not good/ & it may be kept xx. years vnconsumed in his virtue & operations. ¶ Master Paulus saith scamonea is strong and sharp of operation/ consuming the colour/ and hath virtue attractyfe. Scamonea is contrary to the heart taking all his strength/ and causeth commonly the fevers to them that is hot and dry of nature. The masters forbid them that will use scamonea/ for great hot/ and great cold.   

¶ For purgation. A  
¶ Scamonea used with the juice of quince apples & juice of plantago purgeth softly/ purging therewith the ill humours. Seamonea shall never be used alone/ but mastic therewith/ and than taketh the body no harm.   

¶ For pain in the heed. B  
¶ The heed anointed with scamonea meddled with vinegar/ & oil of roses/ taketh away the pain in the heed.   

¶ For ill scabs. C  
¶ The ill scabs anointed with scamonea meddled with vinegar cureth/ healeth and drieth it marvelously.     

¶ Here after followeth the knowledge of the diversities & colours of all manner of urines through the which the Phycysyens minister or cause to be ministered all manner of medicines to the utyll & profitable health of man.  two standing figures, one holding a flask containing liquid and pointing at it  
AVicenna recordeth in the first part of his four book/ where as he writeth that it is not possible for to ease nor help no manner of person with out natural knowledge of the disease or infirmity of man/ which as many noble doctors doth us inform that it is perfectly known by the sight of urine and by the four complexion of man as here after followeth. ¶ When the urine is reed and thick/ that signifieth on to us that the seek body or patient is hot and full of blood/ & of his complexyons is named sanguine.  
¶ When ehe urine is reed and thin than is the seek body hot and dry/ and of his conyleryon named choleric/ and commonly his diseases cometh out of the gall/ and this person is soon vexed unto anger/ and begetteth commonly the yellow jaundice. ¶ When the urine is white and thick the betokeneth on to us that the seek body is ●olde and moist of nature/ and is named phlegmatic and his disease cometh of divers watery humours/ and this man is commonly and often gladly alone.  
¶ When the urine is white and thin that betokeneth on to us that the body shall be cold and dry of nature/ and is named melancholic/ and he is always heavy/ and hath in him heavy blood of the nature of earth/ and is commonly pale of colour.  
NOta The urines is divided in iiij parts The first part is the circle upon the uppermost ring of the urine which signified great pain in the heed The second part of the urine is the next part under this circle/ and that signifieth the disease in the breast and lungs. The third part of the urine is in the midst/ and betokeneth disease in the stomach/ liver/ and milt. The fourth part is the bottom of the urine/ betokening to us the disease in the kydnes/ in the guts bladder/ and matryce or mother. When ye find any of these four urines myxted with any other matters according to the same ye shall know the disease of the person/ through the which ye shall judge the urines which urine ought to be seen in the morning when it is fresh or warm. And these urines shall be put in an urinal & well stopped because it should not divide or wax thick/ for than it ouhgt again to be warmed to have his natural sight according to the forenamed colours.  
THe urines be divided in twenty ꝑtes or more The first colour is white & clear subtle as water. Another is white & thick as thick milk. Another like milk new molken. Another like colour of gynger or a camels hide this colour is named caropos. & these four colours betokeneth a nevil stomach without dysgeyston ¶ The urine that is pale of the colour of flesh half sudden/ & the urine that is pale like flesh that is hole sudden betokeneth a good beghynning of digestion not fulbrought.  
¶ The urine that is yellow like an onrype apple betokenth the beginning of digestion fulbrought.  
¶ The urine that is hold yellow like a ripe apple betokeneth a perfect digestion & also signifieth the reed urine like on pure gold & also like pure gold a perfect and good digestion ¶ the urine that is of colour like watery blood or saffran or like a flame of fire. These four urines betokeneth excess of dysgestyon in the stomach in a hot body & in a seek body it betokeneth feners or access & heat of the liver ¶ The urine that is like thick reed wine or reed earth inclined to heaviness betokeneth a bourned moisture. ¶ The urine of the colour of lead or ashes betokeneth a deadly moisture or sickness. ¶ The urine that is green or of the colour of colewort betokeneth a deadly sickness and moisture. ¶ The urine that is black like a moryan betokeneth also a deadly moisture. ¶ The urine that is hole black as coal betokeneth a deedli bourned moisture. The great learned master Auicenna writeth in the second part of his first book that the black urine cometh sometime of cold when the natural heat of man is spent/ or sometime of a borning heat which spendeth the natural heat.  
¶ The black urine betokeneth also that the milt is stopped whereof cometh oftentimes the yellow jaundys'/ and the reason whereof is this/ the black matery moisture may not come to the milt/ and therefore it draweth to the kydnes or bladder and is not deadly/ but when it is black/ made of small quantity having a stinking fume betokeneth great heat in the lungs and is also deadly. ¶ The black urine betokeneth also a bourned moisture in tempore crisis/ when the nature of man showeth the substance of his disease/ and it is not deadly. ¶ The black urine of an unclean woman betokeneth that here moisture named menstruum is currant/ and that is not deadly. ¶ The black urine betokeneth most part fevers quartain/ & it is also not deadly and specially when he maketh moche at ones. ¶ The black urine betokeneth oftentimes disease in the kydnes and in the bladder/ and is also not deadly.  
¶ The urine of the colour of lead that becometh afterward black/ betokeneth understanding of the forenamed deadly black urine. ¶ The black urine myxted with lead colour/ and almost pure black/ betokeneth the loss of natural heat & the strength of man. ¶ The urine holy of lead colour above and beneath/ & is much worse than the urine that is pale or only yellow above or that is beneath black/ or of the colour of lead. ¶ The black or ledy colour/ which hath been green before/ is deadly as master Ysaac writeth and testifieth. ¶ When the circle of the urine is pale/ that betokeneth great diseases in the brains/ and betokeneth the tocomming falling sickness named Epylencia. ¶ The urine that is of lead colour betokeneth for the most part the waterysekesse named the dropsy. ¶ The urine 〈◊〉 kubbled lead colour betokeneth the cold piss named dyssurya.  
¶ The urine that is black which hath been before white and when the seek body feeleth pain in his left side betokeneth stopping in the milt. ¶ The reed urine that after becometh to lead colour/ & when there hang small grains about the circle signifieth diseases in the lungs named peripleumonia/ & also an impostume named pleuresis. ¶ The white or lead coloured urine having white shells therein swiming/ signifieth the course or fluxum menstrualem of women. The urine of ledy colour coming of any person having a d●●● consumption which sickness is named p●●● is also deadly. ¶ The urine of ledy colour coming of any parson having the ●●nesy in the heed is also deadly. ¶ The urine of a young child being of green colour signifieth the cramp coming of cold as Auycenna testifieth in the second part of his first book. ¶ The urine that is green of a strong fevers or access/ is also deadly/ by the reason of the deadly heat within the body. ¶ The urine that is green of one that hath pain in the stomach/ and when ye see a substance like yeast laying in the bottom of this urine/ signifieth that the person is empoisoned.  
¶ The green urine after great labour & travel signifieth disease of the cramp. ¶ The urine that is clear and thin betokeneth that the milt is stoppeth within the body ¶ white urine with a lead coloured circle signifieth pain in the heed/ or else the falling sickness ¶ The white urine meddled with water on the bottom betokeneth hurting in the kydnes. And when the urine is sharp and biting in the yssuwing/ it betokeneth diseases in the bladder/ or the bladder hath taken cold. ¶ The white or pale urine where as white sand runneth in/ signifieth the stone in the bladder. And when the sand is read it signifieth the stone in the kydnes/ and principally when the urine is thick & fat/ but when the urine is only fat above it betokeneth the heat of the kydnes which heat consumeth the fatness of the kydnes. ¶ white or pale urine which is very stinking/ and little thereof made/ is deadly. ¶ white or pale urine whereon moche scum or foam hangeth about the circle/ betokeneth a moist heed & many wyn●es in the belly. And when there hangeth many little pybles or bells about ye●●●●le it betokeneth a slimy breast. ¶ White ●●●●●led urine/ like the urine of an ass long time continuing/ signifieth great 〈◊〉 in the heed. ¶ Urine whereof little is made/ and that like milk/ betokeneth the go●te/ pale urine with a sad substance and a substance laying on the bottom named ypostasis that gooth not sharp over the urine betokeneth the same body to be diseased with many moisty sicknesses and specially in the limbs under the navel as the kydnes and the bladder. In what urine that the substance of it laying on the ground is white/ going sharply over it betokeneth health. ¶ white urine which is subtle and thin like water/ betokeneth commonly (as Egidius writeth in his book of the urine) the watery sickness named dropsy/ and pain in the milt/ & in the kydnes or the gout in the membres or the falling sickness/ or that the liver hath taken cold/ or the matryce hath taken cold/ or the daily fevers/ or quartain. ¶ The pale urine which is thin and clear betokeneth the same as doth the white urine aforesaid. ¶ white urine like milk & little made betokeneth the gout in the membres/ or the falling of the palsy named Apoplexia. And this urine betokeneth often the gout in the bowels & specially when he feeleth pain about the navel. ¶ The urine little made at one time betokeneth purgation/ or the consuming sickness called ptisis/ or stopping of the liver and milt/ or else an undysgestyfe moisture (as Egidius writeth) And when this is moche of the urine made betokeneth incontrary of the foresaid/ like stopping of purgation opening of the liver and milt. ¶ Pale urine which is also yellow and thick. And when this sinketh done on the ground on an hour like a fatness/ betokeneth stopping in the milt and kydnesse. ¶ The yellow urine wherein driveth a substance like here betokeneth diseases in the kydnes ¶ The urine which is reed and subtle with pybles or bells hanging on the uppermost circle betokeneth an impostume on the breast named pleuresys/ or the sickness in the long named peripleumonia And in those diseases happeth some accedentes/ as the fevers/ short of breath with cowghing/ and thereby ye may know the forenamed diseases.  
¶ The urine which is reed and thin as before and after the fever betokeneth the heat in the liver and kydnes. And specially when a man feeleth heat without on the liver and kydnes.  
¶ Reed urine and thick betokeneth an aposteme on the liver & lungs/ and also the fevers. ¶ Reed urine & thick betokeneth often the watery sickness/ named dropsy coming of cold and stopping of the liver. ¶ Here followeth the significations of the urine/ wherein divers matters he meddled as in the circle.  
THe circle of the urine/ which is the thick in the substance/ & watery of colour/ signifieth pain in the hinder part of the heed. ¶ The circle of the urine which is thick of substance & pure of colour signifieth pain in the first part of the forehead. ¶ The circle which is yellow or reed and thin/ signifieth pain in the right side of the heed. ¶ The circle which is thick in the substance/ & of ledy colour/ signifieth the palsy/ named appoplexia or the falling sickness/ named epylencia. ¶ A subtle circle/ & green of colour signifieth the frenzy in the heed/ as Auicenna saith in the first of his book. ¶ A black circle/ which before was pale is deadly.  
¶ The urine with moche scum & little pybles/ betokeneth heat/ winds/ and fumes mounting from the stomach in the brain/ which causeth the murr. The urine where in driveth a substance like clouds/ signifieth the diseases of the liver. The urine where in the bothom matter is & styncketh/ signifieth pain in the kydnes & bladder. ¶ When in the urine is blood/ it cometh from the liver/ or kydnesse/ or bladder/ or from the matryce.  
¶ Of the matter named sanies that lay on the bottom of the urine. And of the reed and white sand that laid on the ground or bothon is enough afore said.  
¶ When in the urine appeareth a substance or matter like bran/ or shells/ without having the fevers/ betokeneth a sorry & scabby bladder/ or diseases in the bladder/ & when this urine appeareth thus with the axcesse signifieth the consuming sickness named ptisis ¶ When in the urine runneth a substance like here/ and the person hath not the axcesse/ it betokeneth pain in the kydnes. And when the person is grieved with the axcesse and the urine is meddled with here & oil/ signifieth also the consuming sickness named ptisis.  
¶ The urine of a woman with sand in the ground betokeneth that the flower of her is stoppeth named menstruum. ¶ When the sand in the urine of a woman is meddled with blackness & thickness/ not abiding on the ground or bottom/ signifieth that the flower or menstruum runneth in time present. ¶ When such a sand● is on the ground in a man's water betokeneth disease in the milt. ¶ little shells appearing on the ground of the urine And when about the urine pybles or bells hangeth signifieth the gout in the feet named podagra. ¶ When in the urine of a woman swimmeth a cloud meddled with shells driving up & done betokeneth that the woman beareth a child. ¶ When on the ground or bothon of the urine layeth a white cloud/ which is sharp above/ & on the ground thick of his substance/ signifieth a perfect healte of a man. ¶ When on the ground of the urine layeth a white or black urine which is not sharp above signifieth disease in the limbs beneath the navel/ as in the kydnes or bladder.  
¶ All this forenamed iudycyalles of urines/ is only the understanding and opinions of the wordy and expert medicines and masters/ as Auicenna. Isaac. Egidius doth testify with many other divers noble actors which have greatly practised for the prosperity/ health/ and welfare of man where to they have done great diligences.   

¶ The exposition of the words obscure and evil known.  
ALlopice is the falling of here which maketh blade places or pilled cleave without here on the heed. Also allopice is a manner of lepry through the which the here of the brows and of the breed doth fall. ¶ Asma or asmatyke is when any parson draweth his breath with pain or is short upon the breast or as we say in english short breathed/ and it is named asma that causeth the dyseas.  
¶ arthritic is a gout that runneth or hath cowrse over all the places or membres of the body/ but when it is in one place alone or several than it is otherwise named/ as ciragre or citagre/ which is the gout in the feet/ sciatica or sciatike is the gout in the haunches.  
¶ Apoplexy is a manner of a palsy/ and that cometh in divers parsons so suddenly and so fervently that they lest thereby their wit/ their understanding/ their memory or remembraunche and speech/ and can not remene/ & when he is called upon he can not answer/ nevertheless there is difference between apoplexy and lethargy/ for though in litargye there be no high speech/ yet there is answer.  
¶ Antrax is an impostume full of fire/ like unto the fire of saint Anthony. Trices be swellings of the fundament/ and not of the veins thereof/ but only about the fundament/ and of that place be three divers diseases/ as ficus/ fiatrices'/ & hemorrhoids/ but there is difference/ for hemorrhoids or piles be in the veins about the border of the fundament/ and sometime it doth swell and nothing issueth out of it sometime it bleedeth to much/ and sometime it is full of dolorous pain. Atri●es be enflures or swellings very soft about the foundament. But fire or fie is a great thing about the fundament which is within full of gross grains like unto the grains of fyggues/ and therefore it is called fycus.  
¶ Apperitive is an opening of veins or other conduits of the body/ and also of the little holes of the skin through the which the sweet doth issue/ and all stoppings of veins/ conduits/ or small sweet holes be named oppilations/ oppilation & stopping is all one thing.  
¶ Astercyon is when a medicine which hath virtue to extract or take humours out of certain membres cleansing them of their superfluities/ in such medicine it is said substertyve/ and abstersion/ which is the same doing.  
¶ Apostolycon is a plaster or salve so named/ and is to be had at the pothecaries and is specially ordained for wounds in the heed.  
Benedict● is a medicine/ and is to be had at the potycaryes in every place/ and is also named bennet or benedict.  
¶ Bolet is a manner of deed wood and groweth against the trees & is very light. Cordiaca is when any parson hath dyseas at the heart which hath continued of long time/ and that the heart doth tremble and quake/ than it is said he hath the cordials passion.  
¶ Condilomata/ they be dolours of the fundament/ as clesties or cresties without yielding or voiding any blood/ but when they render blood they be named ragadie. ¶ Consume/ it is said that a medicine consumed humours or other things as winds when it resolveth all or near hand all except it void by sensible appearance. And is all one consuming/ or resolving/ or departing or putting forth out of the body in manner of thin vapours which be in the insensible body.  
¶ Conglutinative/ a medicine conglury native is when it joineth the rib or joints together.  
¶ Colire is a medicine that is clear of substance and is good for the eyen/ and that is named colire/ and therefore if we find in the books of any physicians that we should make colire/ if his medicines be hard it must be puluerysed & myxted with wine or in water of herbs/ or else as the book doth devise and that is named colire and this medicine of himself is clear & may be made by himself/ and if it be soft let it be made with clear substances/ and it shall be also colyre.  
¶ Cantere is when one hath a place where the cancre is in/ or other diseases that require that sures to be made which is fiery heat/ cantere is in two manners/ the one by iron or other metal made read hot in the fire/ the other manner by medicines that be so hot that when they be laid to any member they burn it like fire. The canter that is made of fiery metal is named cantere actual. The other that is made by medicine is named cantere potencyall ¶ Corrosive is when a medicine biteth in deed flesh or other things/ than it is named corrosive/ and therefore these medicines that be to strong corrosives be named canters potential/ as realgar or orpiment.  
¶ Ciate that is a measure containing of liquor the quantity in weight of an ounce and an half.  
Dyssentere is the body flix.  
¶ Diamargariton that is a confection in the apothecary which is so named.  
¶ Dyalthea is a salve and it is well beknowned/ and commonly at the apotycaryes is enough in the receipt of dyalthe in the book of the anthidota rye it is greatly notyfyed ¶ Dissolve and dissolutyve is when any medicine minisheth gross and slime humours/ and maketh them subtle thin and clear/ some show which do dissolve and which be dyssolutyfe/ as the fire causeth the ice to become water/ also when gross humours be dissolved or moved to wax clear/ dissolve/ liquefy/ and remit is all one thing.  
¶ Dyaforetyke is when a medicine spreadeth humours & vapours insencyble which be minished in such manner/ moved & made in so subtle vapour that it voideth without noyance/ it is said that this is dyaforetike/ also when one sweteth often which maketh him faint and lean even as his body should consume or be deed/ that is named yforetyke.  
¶ diaphragma is the fleece within the body above the lights and the heart of the one part/ the liver/ the stomach/ the milt/ and the bowels of the other party/ and this fleece is bend overthwart the body from the one side of the rib to the other.  
The impostume that formeth him in dy●fragum is named pleuresies.  
¶ Dragma is the viii part of an ounce.  
¶ Degree is the quantity in the which the patient or seek body is hot/ cold/ dry or moist/ and there be four degrees in medicines/ the fourth degree is when the medicine is so hot that it may no more except death/ yet it would slay any parson that useth thereof in great quantity. The third degree is when it hath less heat/ & yet it is so grece that he that useth often of it shall lightly be seek. The ii degree is when it hath yet less heat and is yet so great that it may be manifestly known through the perseverance of the great heat that it hath in. The first degree is when there is but little heat above the complexion of the parson and so little heat that for ones occopyenge it is not perceived that it warmeth the body but by long continuance it will be perceived/ & when the medicine doth nouther mean nor change the body/ than it is temperate/ and thus is to be understand the degrees before named.  
¶ Dissurie is a diseases when one can not piss without pain/ and of such be two manners/ the one is when the seek body doth piss drop after drop/ or that he can not keep his water/ or that the bladder hath lost his retentive virtue/ or because that the urine is so heavily aggravat that no man may endure nor suffer it within the bladder but issueth continually because the bladder or neck thereof is pierced or perished. And as soon as there cometh any drop of urine it smarteth and burneth in such manner that it must needs issue/ & this dyseas is named strangury/ or strangulyon. The other dyseas is when any one pysses with great pain or by gross humours that stoppeth the conduits/ or for the stone or great grayvell/ or for feebleness of the bladders neck that can not put forth the urine this dyseas is named dyssurye.  
¶ Dyuretyke/ is when a medicine of his proper nature is good to piss/ or openeth the inward veins/ that is named diuretic/ & this diuretic openeth or unstoppeth the conduits of the urine & voideth the gross humours/ and he that should occupy it to much it would be for him to quick/ and therefore it ware not good in strangury because of the great heat of the urine/ thus in using of things is needful to be well looked on and regarded.  
¶ Dyaletyke passion is when one pisseth often and of great quantity/ and as soon as one hath drunk he pisseth in continent after/ and that cometh of the heat of the reins.  
Elephans is of two manners/ the one is a spece of myfelery or lepry/ whereof all the membres of the body loseth their figures with great rystes and clestes/ & is the most horrible diseases that is/ ye shall understand that of these be four manners. The first is Alopyce whereof before is rehearsed/ caused of the corruption of hot brenning blood The second is named Leomine/ and that is when the myfelde hath a face very horrible to behold/ and is fierce and cruel as a lion because of his choleric hot and brenning humours. The third is named ptylies/ he that hath this dyseas pilleth & loseth his skin and is slain like a serpent that runneth or glideth by constraint through an over straight passage. The four is named Elephans/ the which is caused of melancholic humours and is the worst and like a cancre over all the body. Elephans is also of an other manner which is when one hath an arm of a leg three or four times greater than it ought for to be and yet the feet and hands be not swollen ¶ Epilence is a wonderful horrible sickness whereof the patient's fall with great violence unto the ground/ and than they some at the mouth and spartyll with their heels/ and some call it the falling evil/ or the fowl evil.  
¶ Erispyle is an impostume the most hottest that can be except it were a brenning ●ole.  
¶ Emoptoyca/ that is the diseases that one hath that spitteth commonly blood.  
¶ Epithime is a cloth that is foldeth manifold thick and is wete in waters and juice of herbs/ the which is commonly laid unto the liver and sometime it is made of a little pillow of cotton:  
Fomenter is bathing of a member in sethynges of herbs/ but in the heating there is lettyn fall of the same hot liquor upon another hother thing/ thereto most necessary and all by drops/ which is than named Embracium.  
¶ Furfures be small white shells softened to the skin of the heed and to the heat of the heed and is name deed skin.  
Gomorrea or pollution is a diseases where through the seed of man issueth from him against his will and without having any pleasure/ & feblenesshyt the body right sore.  
Herpes estyomenus is a manner of a cancer that eateth round about it/ & is other wise named noli me tangere/ specially if it be in the face because that it taketh harm through handling.  
jerapigra is a medicine composed at the potycaryes the which comforteth the brains. ¶ jeraloganduim is also a medycyn at the potycaryes and is very laxative.  
¶ Incifyne is a medicine which by subtilyte pierceth and deviseth in divers manners gross humours/ and such piercing medicines be good to open the conduits of gross humours that be stopped.  
¶ Iposarca is yposacre/ it is a manner of swelling or dropsy. There be iii manner of species of dropsy. The first is where as all the body is swollen and soft/ & when ye thrust upon it with your finger than there bideth a pit/ and it is also named leucofleumancia. The second is named timpanum/ because that the belly is swollen hard bend and full of wind/ by reason whereof it is light. The third is where as the belly also swollen very great & it weigheth right sore/ and when the seek body removeth from one side to another/ then it giveth a sound like a baryll that is half full of liquor and is named alchites.  
Lethargy or litarge is a manner of the scum of metals.  
¶ Lethargy is a diseases also whereof is showed in Apoplexy.  
¶ Leucofleumancie is spoken of in iposarca Malum terre is the rote of ciclamen.  
¶ Melancholy is a manner of folly as when one will be alone musing & fantasienge ever on the worst and not on the best in making of one sorrow/ sorrows twain which purpose no man can put him fro through the which many one regard him for a fool and all by the reason of his melancolyousnes and foolish fantasies.  
¶ Mania is a madness/ as when it behoveth that the patient be bound/ or else he would beat every body and break all things a sunder:  
¶ Mitygatyfe is when a medicine assuageth dolours/ and pains.  
¶ Morfew is a diseases whereof the body loseth in many places his natural colour and hath strange colours/ and there be ii manners of morfewes/ the one is white & the other is black.  
Nefresy is a great pain in the reins.  
¶ Narcotycke is when a medicine is so cold of nature that through her great coldness it maketh one to sweet and taketh or enslepeth divers membres of a man's body & also the taste and savour or a great part thereof/ and he that is thus is nacotysed Opilacyon is a stopping as before is said in apperetyve:  
¶ Obcalime is a hot impostume that cometh in the eyen which is reed within.  
¶ Oxizacre/ it is a brink to be had at the potycaryes'/ ye shall find more thereof in the chapter of Acetum.  
Pores be the small sweet holes/ where through the sweet doth issue.  
¶ Paralisis is in manner the same diseases as before is spoken of in the chapter of apoplexi.  
¶ Podagre is spoken of before in arthritic Polope is a flesh as if it were cleft in the nose and it stoppesh the nose/ it is commonly fowl flesh and stinking and maketh the nose for to stink.  
¶ Penetratyve is when a medicine is of such virtue and strength that it pierceth lightly unto the perfoundnes of the body. vinegar is very penetratyfe wherefore it is oftentimes myxted and put in many medicines because it should the sooner enter in to the body of the parson as before is said in ptysies. It is all one thing when ye find in medicines penetratyfe or percant.  
¶ Pessarya is when a woman is seek of the mother/ than is put in to the matrix a medicine of clear substance/ the name of the instrument and of the medicine both be named pessayre or pessaria.  
Picula is clear pitch as before is spoken of in the chapter of piche.  
¶ Pilitis Artitico/ is an electuary to be had in the apotycaryes.  
Pleuresis is spoken of in apostumation engendered in the skin or fleece that is upon the rib as is before said in diaphragma ¶ Ponticite or pontic is a sour savour ponticite and stipticite or pontic or stiptic is all one/ saving that pontic hath a sharp savour in sourness/ yet stiptic hath more sourness/ all things what manner of savour it hath that rejoineth or closeth membes enlarged or ratefyed is named stiptic.  
Resouder/ or consolyder is all one/ for it is a rejoining of wounds as before is said in conglutination.  
¶ Resoluer is a sperpling of humours or ventosytes & putteth them out of the body insencybly of subtle vapour.  
¶ Reprimed is a rebateing of the force or sharpness of a medicine that is to violent. ¶ Relaxing is a mollyfyeng or softening of a member so long till it loseth his closing or temperate hardness that it ought to have/ and therefore uhan the skin that encloseth the bowels which is molyfyed or onbent so moche that it descendyth in to the haunches that is a party of the belly than it is said that the same parson is relaxed/ and when the stomach is remolyfyed than it is said that it is relaxed.  
Squinancy is an impostume in the throat ¶ Sirop is a manner of a drink and is a remedy for sicknesses and it is clear/ but it is not an ordinate drink/ for ptysane is no syrup/ for in syrup is always sugar or honey.  
¶ Sincope is a swooning/ and sincopysant is the same/ which cometh through diseases and faintness of the heart.  
¶ Serpio is a tetter which creepeth and breaketh always/ a tetter that doth not creep is named impetigo.  
¶ Sapone or soap serveth for the same/ look the said chapter.  
¶ Splenetike is one that hath an evil milt Sirynge is an instrument or spout with the which medicines be put in to the conduit of the yard.  
¶ suppository/ is a long thing & round which it put in the fundament for to set a clystery.  
¶ suffocation of the matryce or mother/ is when a woman through evil disposition of the matryce loseth her colour/ advice and remembrance/ and it is great pain. This dyseas is named suffocation as divers doctors saith because the matryce lifteth himself up so sore that it doth pierce the heart and diaphragma. But it is better to believe that it cometh of some venomous substance in the matryce which causeth it to mount always toward the heart and from thence it falleth a long by the rib or down right by the conduit. ¶ Scinoche is a fervent hot agne caused of hot and rotyn blood.  
Thenasmon/ is when one goth alway to the draft and can do no thing.  
¶ Tutie is a thing that doth art against a furnaces wherein metal hath been founded or molten/ there is enough at the potycaryes & is good for sore eyen/ but it must be restrained ix time in a certain water Tisis is a piercing of the lights/ for when they be pierced or grieved than the patient spitteth blood day by day/ and that is named tisis.  
¶ Tintimalos/ or tyntymans' is an herb that hath a corosive milk.  
¶ Trosys be figures all round and a little flate.  
Vanity of the eer is a thing as if it were a sown continuing in the eer.  
¶ Ver that is prime tyme.  
Yliaca is dolour and anguish in the belly above the nombryles/ and when it is under the nombryles/ than is the colic.  
¶ Yposacre is spoken of in leucofleumancie.  
OYe worthy readers or practicyens to whom this noble volume is present I beseech you take intelligence and behold the works & operations of almighty god which hath endued his simple creature mankind with the graces of the holy ghost to have perfit knowledge and understanding of the virtue of all manner of herbs and trees in this book comprehended/ and everich of them chaptred by himself/ & in every chapter divers clauses wherein is showed divers manner of medicines in one herb comprehended which ought to be notyfyed and marked for the health of man in whom is repended the heavenly gifts by the eternal king/ to whom be laud and praise everlasting. AMEN   two people standing around a table with objects on it  

¶ Hear after followeth a table very utyll and profitable for them that desire to find quickly a remedy against all manner of diseases/ & they be marked by the letters of the. A. B. C. in every chapter.  

Against ache of the heed.  

Ca i. F  
Ca xxii. C  
Ca xxxv. B  
Ca lxx. B  
Ca cxxii. K  
Ca cxv. B  
Ca cli. D  
Ca lxi. A  
Ca clxiii. B  
Ca cix. D  
Ca ccv. C  
Ca cclxxviii. B  
Ca cccvi. A  
Ca ccclxii. A  
Ca ccclxxxi. D  
Ca ccccxix. D  
Ca. cccc. lxxxii. C  
Ca cccccv. B    

¶ For fistule in the heed.  

Ca xcviii. C    

For a broken heed.  

Ca clxiiii. A  
Ca cccl A    

Against pain of the forehead.  

Ca cccxlvii. A    

Against humour descending fro the heed.  

Ca cclxxii. A    

Against scurf of the heed.  

Ca clviii. C  
Ca ccli. K  
Ca cccclxvi H    

To slay lies on the heed.  

Ca iiii. A  
Ca iiii. C  
Ca. ccccxvi. A    

¶ For scales on the heed.  

Ca cxxii. L  
Ca cccxliii. C    

Against scale of the heed.  

Ca iiii H  
Ca cccv. D    

Against a bald heed  

Ca cccclxxxii. A    

¶ For frenesys in the heed.  

Ca viii. D  
Ca ccx. C    

For litargye or forgetfulness.  

Ca vi. E  
Ca xxiii. A  
Ca xxiii. D  
Ca xxxii. C  
Ca xciii. F  
Ca ciiii. C  
Ca cli. D. E. H  
Ca clviii. E  
Ca cccxcv. C    

¶ For memory.  

Ca cccclxxx. B    

¶ To preserve the mind.  

Ca lxviii. F    

Against brenning in the heed and stomach.  

Ca cccclxii. A    

For lunatic people.  

Ca xi. A    

Against shaking of the heed.  

Ca cclix. ●    

To do grow hear  

Ca cxxiiii. C  
Ca clxviii. E    

To die hear black.  

Ca cxciiii. C    

To die the hear or other things reed  

Ca xxxiiii. A    

To recover the mind  

Ca cli. G    

Against alopicia/ or falling of the hears  

Ca xcv. B  
Ca cliiii. A  
Ca cccxxxvi. G    

Against rheum or pose  

Ca ix. C  
Ca xcii. I  
Ca xciiii. ●  
Ca ci. C  
Ca ccxiiii. B  
Ca ccxxvii. A  
Ca ccxli. B  
Ca cclxxv. C  
Ca cclxxxviii. A  
Ca cccix. B  
Ca cccxvii. A  
Ca cccxxxii. E  
Ca. cccixxvii. B  
Ca. cccciiii. B  
Ca. ccccxiiii. A  
Ca ccccxix. A    

For tetters.  

Ca xvii. A  
Ca xxiii. B  
Ca xxxiiii. C  
Ca cxxiii. A  
Ca cxxxix. B  
Ca cccx. D  
Ca cccxliii. B  
Ca cccxcviii. A  
Ca cccciii. B  
Ca. ccccxxxvii. B  
Ca. cccclxi. B  
Ca. cccc. lxxix. B    

Against humours in the brain.  

Ca iii. C  
Ca lxx. E  
Ca xc. B    

For the brain.  

Ca two. B  
Ca viii. D  
Ca clxxxv. C  
Ca clxxxvii. B    

For the neck.  

Ca cxix. F  
Ca cccxlix. A    

For the brows.  

Ca cxxii. K    

Against the eyen.  

Ca i. B  
Ca i. G  
Ca xvii. D  
Ca xxxviii. A  
Ca lxi. D  
Ca clxvi. A  
Ca clxvi. C  
Ca clxxix. C  
Ca cclxxi. H  
Ca ccclv. B  
Ca ccclxxi. A  
Ca ccccxxxiii. A  
Ca ccccc. two. A  
Ca cccccii. C    

Against the heat in the eyen.  

Ca cccclxxxii    

¶ For the blood in the eyes.  

Ca c. E    

Against dimness of the eyen.  

Ca lxi. F  
Ca cxv. F  
Ca ccxxxvii.  
Ca cclxvi. C  
Ca ccc.lxii. C  
Ca. cccclxxiii. D    

Against tetters in the eyen.  

Ca cccxxii. A    

¶ Against spots in the eyen.  

Ca iii. E  
Ca xii. C. in anthimonis.  
Ca lxxxii.    

¶ Against running eyes in children.  

Ca cccclxxiiii.    

For the web in the eyen.  

Ca nineteen.  
Ca xxiiii. A  
Ca xci. F  
Ca cxl. A  
Ca clxxii. D  
Ca ccxvi. B  
Ca ccxxiiii. A  
Ca ccxxxiii. A  
Ca ccxxxv. A  
Ca cclix. B  
Ca ccclxii. M  
Ca ccclxxxviii. B  
Ca cccxci. A  
Ca ccccvii. G  
Ca ccccx. A  
Ca ccccliii. B  
Ca. ccccli. D  
Ca. ccccxxxviii. A  
Ca ccccxcix. A    

Against the pearl in the eyen.  

Ca cccxcv. B    

Against redness in the eyen.  

Ca xxii.  
Ca ciii. in the second. A  
Ca clxvi. A  
Ca cclix. B  
Ca ccclxiii. N  
Ca ccclxxxi. C    

Against alreednesses  

Ca ccxxii. D  
Ca ccxxxii. D  
Ca ccclxxi. B  
Ca ccccxv. D    

For impostume in the eyen.  

Ca cxxxiii. A    

For to clear the sight  

Ca xci. D    

Against the ears.  

Ca xxi. B  
Ca lxi. E  
Ca ccxv. A  
Ca ccclxviii. B    

Against deafness.  

Ca xxv. B  
Ca ccxliiii. A  
Ca ccclxxvii. C    

Against matter in the ears.  

Ca ccccxii. D    

¶ For worms in the ears.  

Ca i. K  
Ca xxii.  
Ca lxxxiii. D  
Ca xci. C  
Ca clviii. B  
Ca cxci. D  
Ca ccxxxvi. B  
Ca cclxxxiii. F  
Ca ccciii. E  
Ca cccliii. A    

Against pain of the chickens.  

Ca ci. B    

For the nostrils.  

Ca cccxxiii. B    

For the flesh in the nose called polippe.  

Ca xii. B. in anthimonis.  
Ca lxxii. H  
Ca cxliiii. B  
Ca clu B  
Ca. clxiii. E    

Against chepping of the lips  

Ca cccxxxv. B    

¶ For the mouth.  

Ca cvi. E  
Ca cccxxxv.    

Against sores in the mouth  

Ca xlii. D  
Ca cccxliiii: N    

For the blisters in the mouth.  

Ca ccxlii. B    

Against stench of the mouth.  

Ca xcii. E  
Ca cclxvi. D  
Ca cclxxiii. A  
Ca cclxxxv. D    

¶ Against unsavoury mouths.  

Ca cxlviii. B    

For the tothes.  

Ca ccxcii. D    

¶ To pull out a tooth easily.  

Ca ccxcii. B    

For tooth ache.  

Ca v. D  
Ca l. E. in balsamus.  
Ca lx. H  
Ca lxxi. A  
Ca lxxxiii. C  
Ca cvii C  
Ca. cxv. A  
Ca clxxxviii. E  
Ca ccxiii. E  
Ca ccxiii. F  
Ca ccxiii. in the second. A  
Ca ccxxviii. B  
Ca cclxxi. F  
Ca cccxliiii. A  
Ca ccclxii. D  
Ca cccxcix. A  
Ca cccclxxx. A    

To white the teeth.  

Ca cccxxi. A    

To grow teeths in young children.  

Ca ccccxci.    

¶ For gomes'.  

Ca seven. B  
Ca xcvii. B  
Ca. cvi. F  
Ca ccxxxiii. C  
Ca cclxxxviii. C  
Ca cccxlvii. C  
Ca ccclxiii. H  
Ca ccclxxvii. D    

Against the tongue.  

Ca clxxxix. A  
Ca cclxxx. C    

Against dryness in the tongue in fever ague.  

Ca cccxxxvi.    

For palsy/ or percution of the tongue.  

Ca ccciii. A  
Ca ccclxxxvii. A    

To white the face.  

Ca cccxxi. E    

To cleanse or to make clear the face.  

Ca vi. A  
Ca lxiii. C  
Ca lxvi. A  
Ca cxlii. E  
Ca ccxv. E  
Ca ccxxii. C  
Ca cccv. B  
Ca ccclxxiii. C  
Ca. cccciii. A  
Ca ccccxxxv. B    

For scurf and kernels in the face.  

Ca cxxii. C    

Against pimples in the face.  

Ca clvi. G  
Ca ccxliii. D    

For ill colours in the face.  

Ca i. I  
Ca xxii. E  
Ca xciiii. A  
Ca clu C  
Ca. ccxxxii. C  
Ca cclxxxiiii. D  
Ca. cccclxiii. A    

For hurt or blackness in the face.  

Ca xxi. D    

For blueness of strokes.  

Ca ccccxcvii. C    

¶ For spetties in the face of women after childing named pannus  

Ca lxxxii. C  
Ca ccxli. C  
Ca ccxli. D    

¶ For frekens.  

Ca xxiii.    

To cleanse the skin.  

Ca cccclxxxvii. A    

For fleeing of the skin  

Ca ccccxcix E    

For pain in the neck  

Ca lxi. Q    

¶ For swelling in the throat.  

Ca cccxliiii. O  
Ca ccclxx. F    

For the dig or dewlappe in the throat.  

Ca ccxxiiii. C  
Ca ccciii. D    

Against anela or briyne about the throat  

Ca ccclxxxvii. F  
Ca cccc. xiiii. B    

Against squynsy or squynansy.  

Ca ccviii. A  
Ca ccxci. A    

Against palsy.  

Ca lxi. ●  
Ca lxxi. B  
Ca xciii. B  
Ca xcviii. C  
Ca clii. A  
Ca ccxii. A  
Ca ccciii. B  
Ca cccxxviii.  
Ca ccclxxxii. B  
Ca ccclxxxvii. E  
Ca cccxcv. B  
Ca. ccccli. in the second. A    

For percution of the membres.  

Ca ccclxxxvii. B    

Against shepping.  

Ca xcvii. C  
Ca ccxxxiiii. B    

Against stench of the arm holes.  

Ca xcii. F    

Against stench in the body.  

Ca clxxiiii.    

For horsnesse.  

Ca cccxvii.    

A good purgation.  

Ca clvi. A    

Against pain in the breast.  

Ca thirty. B  
Ca cl. B  
Ca clxxiii. C  
Ca clxxxix. F  
Ca ccxxix. A  
Ca cclxxxviii. B  
Ca cccxxxv. A  
Ca cccxxxvi●●  
Ca cccxxxix. ●  
Ca cccxlviii. C    

For broken veins in the breast.  

Ca cxxxiiii. A  
Ca cccxlviii. C    

For short breathe named asma.  

Ca v. A  
Ca xxv. A  
Ca xxvi. B  
Ca xxxiiii. A  
Ca xxxv. A  
Ca xcvii. A  
Ca cii. C  
Ca cxi. C  
Ca cxliii. A  
Ca cxlv. D  
Ca cl. C  
Ca clxi. I  
Ca clxx. C  
Ca clxxv. A  
Ca clxxxv. B  
Ca clxxxvi. A  
Ca cxxxviii. A  
Ca cc.xvi. F  
Ca ccxxxvi. K  
Ca cclxxxiii. A  
Ca cccxvii. B  
Ca cccxxxii. A  
Ca cccxxxviii. E  
Ca ccclxxx. A  
Ca ccclxxxii. A  
Ca ccclxxxiii. A  
Ca ccccx. B  
Ca. ccccxxxii. A    

For dryness named ptysys.  

Ca lxi. K  
Ca cxlii. A    

¶ For the lungs.  

Ca clxxxiiii: A  
Ca ccclxxv. A  
Ca cccclxxxii. M  
Ca. cccclxxxvii. B    

¶ Against cough.  

Ca xii. B  
Ca xxxiiii. B  
Ca xl. D  
Ca xli. K  
Ca xc. A  
Ca xcv. B  
Ca. ci. B  
Ca cclii. B  
Ca cl. C  
Ca ccxxi. B  
Ca ccxxix: B  
Ca cclxxxiii. B  
Ca ccclxv. A  
Ca ccccc. A    

¶ For dry cough.  

Ca lxix. A  
Ca cx. D    

¶ Against chynke cough/ and the yellow yaundies.  

Ca cccclxxiii. A    

Against old cough  

Ca xx. A  
Ca cccclxv. A    

¶ Against cough & flux of blood of the breast.  

Ca cccclviii. A    

Against cold cough  

Ca ccxiiii. A  
Ca cclxxv. A  
Ca cccclxxviii. A    

¶ For the liver.  

Ca xxii. B  
Ca lxv. A  
Ca xci. A  
Ca cxix. in the end.  
Ca cxxi. A  
Ca ccxix. A  
Ca cclxxiiii. A  
Ca ccclxxxiii. B    

Against chafing of the liver.  

Ca cxii. F  
Ca cxlviii. E  
Ca ccclxiii. E  
Ca ccclxvi. B  
Ca ccclxxviii. C  
Ca. cccc. lix. A    

Against stopping or opilation of the liver.  

Ca i. H  
Ca viii. B  
Ca lxxxii. C  
Ca cxliii. C  
Ca ccxlv. A  
Ca ccc.xlii. B  
Ca ccclxxviii. A  
Ca cccxcii. B  
Ca. ccccxxii. A  
Ca cccclx. C    

¶ Against pain of the heart.  

Ca lviii. C  
Ca lxviii. E  
Ca xcii. G  
Ca xcvii. C  
In carabe. A  
Ca clxxxv. E  
Ca clxxxvii. C  
Ca ccxvi. C  
Ca ccxxx. C  
Ca. cclxxxliii. D  
Ca ccclxx. A  
Ca ccclxxvii. A  
Ca cccclxxviii. D    

Against faintness of the heart named Syncopys.  

Ca iii. D  
Ca xxxviii. A  
Ca xlviii. C  
Ca xciiii. A  
Ca cclxxvi. A  
Ca ccclxiii. I  
Ca cccclxxvii. C    

Against swooning of the heart.  

Ca iii. D  
Ca lviii. B  
Ca lxxxvi. A  
Ca xcii. G  
Ca cclxxiii. D  
Ca cclxxxv. A  
Ca cccxiii. A  
Ca cccxix. A. of the bone.  
Ca ccclxiii. M    

¶ Against cordyake passion.  

Ca lviii. A  
Ca cxlix. A  
Ca clxvi. C    

¶ For the milt.  

Ca iii. E  
Ca. v: C  
Ca. viii. H  
Ca xx.  
Ca xxii. E  
Ca xxvii. B  
Ca xxxviii. E  
Ca xliiii. A  
Ca lxi. M  
Ca lxiiii. C  
Ca lxxi. D  
Ca lxxxiii. C  
Ca lxxxix. A  
Ca xcii. H  
Ca xcviii. C  
Ca cii. A  
Ca cix A  
Ca cxii. I  
Ca cxxxvii. B  
Ca cli. K  
Ca clxiii. C  
Ca clxxi. B  
Ca clxxii. A  
Ca clxxiii. B  
Ca clxxiiii. C  
Ca lxxxviii. C  
Ca ccv. B  
Ca ccxxxvi. D  
Lupulus A  
Ca cclxxxiii. G  
Ca ccclxiiii. B  
Ca ccclxxx. C  
Ca. cccclxiii. A  
Ca cccclxxii. E    

¶ For to soften the milt.  

Ca clxviii. A    

¶ For oppilation of the milt.  

Ca clxviii. B    

¶ For the stomach.  

Ca i. E  
Ca lxi. B  
Ca i. A  
Ca clxxiii. D  
Ca ccc.ii. A  
Ca ccc.lxvii. A  
Ca ccclxxiii. D    

¶ For the cold stomach.  

Ca iii. F  
Ca xxxi. A  
Ca xxii. D  
Ca xciiii. A  
Ca ciiii. B  
Ca cix. C  
Ca lvi. F  
Ca clxix. D  
Ca cclxxxiiii. A  
Ca cclxxxvii. C  
Ca cccvii. A  
Ca cccxiiii. B  
Ca. ccccxiiii. C  
Ca. ccccxxxiiii.  
Ca lxxvii. A    

¶ To cleanse the stomach.  

Ca cclxxxiiii. C  
Ca cccxiiii. B  
Ca ccclxii. E  
Ca ccclxiii. A  
Ca ccccviii. A    

¶ To comfort the stomach.  

Ca two. A  
Ca lxxxvi. B  
Ca ciii. A  
Ca cclxxiii. B    

¶ To comfort digestion.  

Ca c. A  
Ca cv. A  
Ca cxvi. A  
Ca cix. C  
Ca lxxxv. A  
Ca xcviii. A  
Ca cclxviii. A  
Ca cclxxxvii. A  
Ca cclxxv. B  
Ca cclxxxii. A  
Ca cccvii. A  
Ca cccix. A  
Ca cccxxxi. A    

¶ Against apostumes in the stomach.  

Ca ccccvii. F    

¶ For swelling of the stomach.  

Ca cxxii. C    

¶ For pain of the stomach.  

Ca lx. L  
Ca xc. B  
Ca cix. A  
Ca cxliii B  
Ca. cl. A  
Ca clxx. B  
Ca ccxxv. A  
Ca ccxxviii. B  
Ca ccxlv. B  
Ca cclvii. A  
Ca cclx. A  
Ca cccxlii. A  
Ca ccclxx. G  
Ca ccclxxviii. B  
Ca ccclxxxix. A  
Ca cccxcvii. A  
Ca cccc. A  
Ca cccciiii. C  
Ca. cccclxxxii. D  
Ca ccccxcix. D  
Ca. ccccc. C    

¶ For the liver/ milt reins and bladder.  

Ca xcviii. B    

¶ For the liver and milt.  

Ca cclxxix. in malua. C    

¶ For the reins.  

Ca lxi. N  
Ca ccc.xl. B    

¶ For the veins.  

Ca cxci. A    

¶ Against dropsy coming of cold.  

Ca seven. D  
Ca xvii. C  
Ca xxiiii. A  
Ca lxxviii. B  
Ca cxxi. C  
Ca clii. B  
Ca ccxxiiii. A  
Ca ccccxiii. B    

Against dropsy leucoflewmance.  

Ca vi. B  
Ca clxix. B  
Ca clxii. C  
Ca cclvi. F  
Ca ccxlvi. A    

For a white flaw by the nails.  

Ca ccccxiii. B    

For yaundies.  

Ca viii. C  
Ca nineteen.  
Ca xxxvii. A  
Ca xliiii. D  
Ca lviii. D  
Ca lxi. d  
Ca lxx. G  
Ca cxlviii. A  
Ca ccxix. B  
Ca cclxi. in ca lacca.    

¶ Against the great worms in the womb.  

Ca ccxcii. E    

Against ache in the guts.  

Ca xxix. F  
Ca lxxvi. D    

Against colic passion.  

Ca xxvii. B  
Ca lxi. O  
Ca cxv. C  
Ca cxc A  
Ca ccxli. A  
Ca ccxl●ii. A  
Ca ccciii. E  
Ca cccxv. B  
Ca. cccclxxxii. K    

Against pain in the belly.  

Ca v. E  
Ca xxix. E  
Ca lxi. P  
Ca cviii. D  
Ca cclxxi. C  
Ca cccxxxvii. A  
Ca cccxxxviii. B  
Ca cccxlii. B  
Ca cccxlvii. B  
Ca ccclxii. F  
Ca ccclxviii. D  
Ca ccclxx. H  
Ca ccccviii. B  
Ca. ccccxcii. C    

For worms in the belly of children.  

Ca ccclxxii. A    

To lose the belly.  

Ca xxi. A  
Ca lxxi. C  
Ca cclxxix. in malua: E  
Ca cclxxxiiii. E  
Ca cccxxxii. D  
Ca. ccccii. A  
Ca cccclxxxii. A    

Against worms in the belly.  

Ca i. A  
Ca xviii. B  
Ca xx. C  
Ca xxii. A  
Ca xxv. C  
Ca lxxxix. B  
Ca xcviii. B  
Ca cix. E  
Ca lii. C  
Ca clxxxviii. F  
Ca cxci. C  
Ca cxcvii. A  
Ca ccxxxvi. H  
Ca ccxl. A  
In ca lolium. A  
Ca cclxxiiii. B  
Ca cclxxxiii. E  
Ca cccxi. A  
Ca cccxii. A  
Ca cccxliiii. G  
Ca ccclx A  
Ca ccccvii. C  
Ca. ccccxii. B    

Against flux in the belly.  

Ca xiiii. B  
Ca xiiii. D  
Ca lvii. B  
Ca lxiii. C  
Ca lxvii. A  
In gallinaria. B  
Ca cxxii. M  
Ca clxxi. A  
Ca clxxiiii. F  
Ca clxxxv. A  
Ca cxciiii. A  
Ca cc.xu in the second. A  
Ca ccxvi. in the second. A  
Ca xxxvii. B  
Ca ccxliii. B  
Ca cclix. E  
Ca cclxvi. B  
Ca cclxxviii. D  
Ca cclxxx. B  
Ca cccxlviii: D  
Ca ccclxiii. D  
Ca ccclxiii. G  
Ca ccclxiii. K  
Ca ccclxviii. G  
Ca ccclxxiii: A  
Ca ccclxxiii. B  
Ca ccclxxiiii. C  
Ca ccccxxxix. A  
Ca ccccliii. E  
Ca. cccclxii. A  
Ca ccccc. B    

¶ To preserve health.  

Ca cxxxvii. in cathapucia.  
Ca cccccv. A    

¶ A purgation.  

Ca cccclxxxix. A    

Against pain in the body.  

Ca cccxliii. B    

Against vomit and divers fluxes.  

B    

For vomit.  

Ca xiiii. A  
Ca xiiii. D  
Ca xxxii. A  
Ca xliiii. B  
Ca lvii. A  
Ca lxi. I  
Ca lxi. i  
Ca lxiii. B  
Ca lxiii. D  
Ca lxvii. A  
Ca xcviii. D  
Ca nineteen. G  
Ca cxxvii. F. in cathapucia.  
Ca clxxi. A  
Ca clxxix. B  
Ca ccxv. B  
Ca cclxxiii. C  
Ca cc.lxxxi. B  
Ca ccccxx. A  
Ca ccccxxxix. C    

To provoke vomit.  

Ca cccii. A  
Ca ccccxii. G    

To staunch vomit  

Ca cclxxii. B  
Ca ccclxiii. L  
Ca cccxcii. B    

For dyssentery and pain in the fundament.  

Ca lxxiii. C    

Against choleric flux  

Ca cccxliii. C    

Against ylyake passion.  

Ca xxxv. C  
Ca xv. B  
Ca l. in balsamo.  
Ca lxxxix. D  
Ca xci. B  
Ca xcvi. B  
Ca xcviii. A  
Ca cii. E  
Ca cviii. C  
Ca cx. A  
Ca cx. C  
Ca cxxxix. A  
Ca cli. B  
Ca clxx. D  
Ca ccxvi: C  
Ca cclxxii. F  
Ca ccciii. E  
Ca. ccccxlvii. A    

For the urine.  

Ca cccl B  
Ca. cccclxxxv. B    

To cause urine.  

Ca ccclxix. A  
Ca cccxcv. D  
Ca. ccccxxxiiii.    

Against the bulk.  

Ca ccxvii A  
Ca cccxxvii. A  
Ca cccxxix. B  
Ca. cccciiii. A    

Against cold humours in the bulk.  

Ca cccxxx. B  
Ca ccclxxxix A    

¶ Against pain in the bladder.  

Ca vi. Y  
Ca clxx. A  
Ca cclxi. A  
Ca cccxlv. B  
Ca ccclxxix A    

Against pain of the urine.  

Ca iiii. A  
Ca cviii. A  
Ca cxix. H  
Ca cclxxxiii. C  
Ca cccxxviii. B  
Ca ccclxx. I  
Ca cccclxxxii. G    

For strangury and dyssury.  

Ca viii. A  
Ca viii. K  
Ca xvii. B  
Ca xviii. C  
Ca thirty. A  
Ca xxxix. A  
Ca l. A. in balsamo.  
Ca lxxxv. A  
Ca xci. A  
Ca xcii. B  
Ca xcvi. A  
Ca xcviii. A  
Ca ci. D  
Ca cxix. D  
Ca cxxii. B  
Ca cxxxix. A  
Ca clxx. A  
Ca ccv. A  
Ca ccxvi. B  
Ca ccxxxvi. E  
Ca ccxciiii. B  
Ca ccciii. F  
Ca cccxii. B  
Ca cccxxx. A  
Ca ccclxii. H  
Ca ccccv. A  
Ca ccccxix B  
Ca. cccclx. A  
Ca cccc. xcvii. B    

¶ For gravel.  

Ca ccli. A  
Ca ccci. A    

Against the stone in the bladder.  

Ca xxxvii. A  
Ca lxi. Y  
Ca lxx. A  
Ca cviii. B  
Ca clxiii. A  
Ca clxvi. B  
Ca cxciii. A  
Ca cxcvi. A  
Ca cclxiiii. A  
Ca ccxciiii. A  
Ca cccxxxviii. D  
Ca. cccclxxiii.  
Ca cccclxxxii. F  
Ca cccclxxxvi. A  
Ca cccclxxxvi. C  
Ca. ccccxci. C  
Ca. ccccxcviii. B    

To break the stone.  

Ca ccxvi. E  
Ca ccxlvii. A    

For pain of the matryce.  

Ca xvi. A  
Ca xxi. C  
Ca xxxv. A  
Ca ccxxv. A  
Ca ccxxxiii. D  
Ca. ccccxcvi. B  
Ca. cccc. xcvi. C    

Against apostumes in the matryce.  

Ca cclvi. B    

Against suffocation of the matryce.  

Ca xxii. E  
Ca xxviii. C  
Ca cccxxxviii. C  
Ca ccclxxxv. B  
Ca cccclxv. E    

To cleanse the matryce  

Ca lxxxiii. F  
Ca xcviii. C  
Ca cii. F  
Ca cxv. A  
Ca cclxxiii E  
Ca. cccxiiii. C  
Ca cccxvii. D  
Ca cccxxviii. C  
Ca cccxxxii. B  
Ca ccclxx. K  
Ca ccclxxvii. E  
Ca ccccxix. B  
Ca ccccxlv. B  
Ca. ccccli. B  
Ca. cccclxxii. B  
Ca. cccclviii. B  
Ca. cccclxxxii. E    

For the excessive flux of menstrue.  

Ca vi. C  
Ca xxix. F  
Ca xxiiii. in semine amoni.  
Ca lxvii. C  
Ca cxliiii. C  
Ca clxi. in the end.  
Ca lxviii. D  
Ca cxcv. A  
Ca cclxxvii. C  
Ca ccxv. B  
Ca ccxlii. in the first. A  
Ca ccclxxxv. C  
Ca ccccxv. C  
Ca. cccclxii. A  
Ca cccclxxxiii. A  
Ca cccclxxxiii. D    

To provoke flowers in women.  

Ca vi. D  
Ca xxv. in the end.  
Ca xxix. A  
Ca xxix. F  
Ca ix. A  
Ca xci. H  
Ca xxii. D  
Ca cxxxv. in cotula.  
Ca lvi. C  
Ca cxc. B  
Ca ccxv. D  
Ca cclxxxix. C  
Ca ccclxii. K  
Ca ccclxvii. B  
Ca ccclxxx. B  
Ca ccclxxxiii. C  
Ca ccclxxxvi. A  
Ca cccxcv. D  
Ca. ccccxiiii. D  
Ca ccccxix. C  
Ca. cccclx. A  
Ca cccclxvi. C  
Ca. cccclxxiii.  
Ca cccclxxxii. I    

¶ For childing.  

Ca cxxii. E    

For weals of children.  

Ca ccclxxix. B    

A contrary to woman with child.  

Ca cccc●. A    

For conception.  

Ca lxviii. D  
Ca cix. B  
Ca cccxxii C  
Ca. ccclxxvii. E  
Ca. cccciiii. C  
Ca cccclxxix. A    

For a woman that have great pain in their travail.  

Ca lxi. ●    

For to bring out the child's bed named secudina.  

Ca cccxliiii. L  
Ca ccclxvii. B    

¶ For to deliver of a deed child.  

Ca cxlv. C  
Ca cccxv. C  
Ca ccclxvii. B  
Ca. cccclxiii. A    

For to come milk in women.  

Ca cccc. thirty. A    

For crudded milk in the breasts of women  

Ca cclxiii. E  
Ca cclxxiii. G  
Ca. cccclviii. B    

For woman's breasts.  

Ca lxxiii. E  
Ca cxx. A  
Ca cxxiiii. B    

¶ To cause woman's breasts be small.  

Ca cccxxii. D    

For tours humours.  

Ca cccccv. C  
Ca ccxliiii. B  
Ca. ccccciiii. A    

¶ For melancholy.  

Ca viii. I  
Ca lviii. D  
Ca ccxxx. A  
Ca ccxxx. D  
Ca cccxix.    

For choleric humours  

Ca lxviii. D  
Ca cxii. C  
Ca. cccclxvii. A    

For hot causes.  

Ca ccxiii. D    

For botches.  

Ca cxxxvi. A    

For bleeding at the mouth.  

Ca cvi. B    

¶ For bleeding of the outward membres  

Ca ccccx. A    

For bleeding of the nose.  

Ca xii. D  
Ca xiiii. C  
Ca xxxvi. B  
Ca lvi. C  
Ca lxi. G  
Ca lxiii. A  
Ca lxxii. A  
Ca lxxxii. E  
Ca. cvi. A  
Ca clxi. A  
Ca clxxxix. E  
Ca cxciiii. B  
Ca cclxxvii. C  
Ca cccxxxvi. E  
Ca cccxlvii.  
Ca ccclvii. A  
Ca ccclxviii. A  
Ca ccclxxxi. B  
Ca ccclxxxv. A  
Ca ccclxxxviii. N  
Ca ccccxv. A  
Ca ccccxxi. D  
Ca. cccclxii. A  
Ca cccclxv. E    

For spitting of blood named passio emoptoica.  

Ca lvi. A  
Ca lxi. b  
Ca lxxiii. A  
Ca clxi. B  
Ca clxxxix. C  
Ca ccxx. B  
Ca cclxxvii. C  
Ca cccxliiii. b  
Ca cccxlviii. A  
Ca ccclxxiiii. A  
Ca ccclxxxv. b  
Ca ccccxix. C  
Ca. ccccxcvii. A    

To staunch blood at the nose.  

Ca ccxxiii. A  
Ca cclxxxi. C  
Ca. cccclxii. A    

To stop blood of a wound.  

Ca i. C    

For bloody flux.  

Ca cxlii. G  
Ca clxi. C  
Ca clxxxix. D  
Ca cxcv. b  
Ca ccxiii. C    

To cause blood at the nose.  

Ca ccccxxi. A    

For hemorrhoids or piles.  

Ca viii. L  
Ca xii. E  
Ca xv. E  
Ca xvi. B  
Ca xxix. C  
Ca xci. G  
Ca cxliiii. D  
Ca clviii. C  
Ca cxci. B  
Ca cciii. A  
Ca ccxxx. C  
Ca ccclxxxiii. D  
Ca ccxcvii. A  
Ca ccclxviii. C  
Ca ccccl. A  
Ca ccxv. D  
Ca. ccccvii. D  
Ca. cccclxxii. A  
Ca ccclxviii. F    

For costiveness.  

Ca xxix. B  
Ca xc. D  
Ca cv. B  
Ca cxi. A  
Ca clxviii. D  
Ca clxxiiii. E  
Ca cclvi. D  
Ca cclxxix. A  
Ca ccciii. G  
Ca cccxvii. C  
Ca cccxxviii. C  
Ca cccxxxii. C  
Ca ccclxii. I  
Ca ccc.xxvii. F  
Ca ccclxxxviii. C  
Ca. cccc. B  
Ca ccccxxxix. B  
Ca. cccc. i. A  
Ca cccclxxii. C  
Ca. cccclxxvii. B    

For cold apostumes.  

Ca xii. A  
Ca lxiiii. A  
Ca cxx. A  
Ca clxxxiiii. B  
Ca ccxv. B  
Ca. cccclxxii. F    

For hot apostumes.  

Ca xiiii. E  
Ca lxix. C  
Ca cxii. G  
Ca clxi. in the end.  
Ca clxxviii. A  
Ca cciii. D  
Ca ccxxxviii. B  
Ca ccxxxix. B  
Ca cclxxix. A  
Ca ccxci. A  
Ca cccxxix. A  
Ca cccxxxvi. F  
Ca cccxl. A  
Ca cccxli. A  
Ca ccclxxi. C  
Ca ccclxxviii.  
Ca ccccxvii. A    

For to ripe cold apostumes.  

Ca clvi. B  
Ca clxxiii. A  
Ca ccxxxii. A  
Ca ccxxxvi. C  
Ca cclix. C  
Ca cclxxix. B  
Ca cclxxi. D  
Ca cccxix. B    

To break apostumes.  

Ca clxvii. B  
Ca clxxxviii. D  
Ca cclvi. A  
Ca ccccli. in the second. A  
Ca cccclxiii. B  
Ca cccclxxxv. C    

¶ To pullout the matter of the impostumes.  

Ca cccclxxxiiii. B  
Ca. cccclxxxviii. B    

¶ For the impostume pleuresis.  

Ca ccccliii. A    

¶ For the impostume Antrax.  

Ca ccxcv. A    

¶ For impostumes on the membres.  

Ca xxxviii. F  
Ca xl. B  
Ca xlviii. A  
Ca lxiiii. B  
Ca lxviii. B  
Ca lxxix. A  
Ca cclxx. A  
Ca cclxxiiii. C  
Ca cclxxviii. C  
Ca ccc●. C  
Ca cccxix. A  
Ca ccclxxxvii. C    

For swellings.  

Ca ccxiii. H  
Ca cccclvii. A    

For hot swellings.  

Ca cccclxxxiiii. C    

For swellings in the extreme membres.  

Ca clxii. B    

Against biles in the body.  

Ca cccclxxxv. A  
Ca ccccc. A    

Against hardness  

Ca ccxxxii. B    

To pierce the skin without blood.  

Ca clxvii. A    

Against the pestilence  

Ca ccccliii. D    

Against the canker.  

Ca seven. A  
Ca seven. E  
Ca xxvii. A  
Ca cxv. D  
Ca cxix. B  
Ca ccix. C  
In B. ca lolium.  
Ca cccxlvii. F  
Ca cccclxii. B    

Against fistule.  

Ca xv. D  
Ca xxxviii. G  
Ca lxi. oh  
Ca xcv. E  
Ca cxliiii. A  
Ca xlii. C  
Ca ccix. E  
Ca cccliiii. A  
Ca ccclv. A  
Ca ccccliii. A  
Ca cccclxiiii. A  
Ca cccclxxii.    

For a wound  

Ca xxxviii. D  
Ca. cccclxiiii. B  
Ca ccclxiii. A    

For fresse wounds.  

Ca cci.  
Ca ccccclxxxiii. B    

For all foul wounds  

Ca lxxvi. C  
Ca lxxvii. A  
Ca cccxliiii. D  
Ca cccclxxix. D    

For venomous wounds.  

Ca ccccxx. A    

For the deed flesh in sores & wounds.  

Ca cccxxvii. B  
Ca. ccccci. A    

For all wounds.  

Ca cxl. B  
Ca ccxlvi. A    

To close wounds.  

Ca ccxlii. A  
Ca cclxxvii. D  
Ca lvi. A  
Ca ccccxxxviii. B    

For to nesshe a wound.  

Ca cccclxv. F    

Against pimples.  

Ca cccccii. B    

Against itch.  

Ca xli. A    

¶ For itch & scabs  

Ca li. A  
Ca ccci. B    

Against leper.  

Ca ccci. B  
Ca. ccccxii. F    

Against leper alopice  

Ca ccccvii: B    

Against leper elephant.  

Ca iii. A    

Against scabs.  

Ca iiii. B  
Ca seven. C  
Ca seven. D  
Ca xxvi. in the end.  
Ca clviii. D  
Ca clxix. A  
Ca ccxxxvi. A  
Ca ccxxxvii. A  
Ca cccxii. C  
Ca cccxliii. A  
Ca ccclxxxii. C  
Ca. ccccvii. A  
Ca cccclxi. A  
Ca cccccv. C    

Against morphew.  

Ca xv. F  
Ca xxiii. C  
Ca lxxiiii. A  
Ca cccclxi. C    

Against sores old & new.  

Ca ccx. A    

Against old sores.  

Ca cccxcvii. B    

Against new sores.  

Ca cccxlix. B    

¶ Against ronning sores.  

Ca cccclxxiiii. A  
Ca cccclxxxiii. C    

For them that been grieved.  

Ca lxi. f    

Against warts.  

Ca lxxiii. D  
Ca ccix. B    

Against ring worms.  

Ca ccxxxvi. B    

¶ For sacer ignis.  

Ca xliiii. C    

Against scalding.  

Ca cxviii. A  
Ca ccclxxxi. A    

Against spots brenneth in the son.  

Ca cccclxxiiii. C    

Against brenning.  

Ca cccc. lxxiiii. B  
Ca clxxviii. B  
Ca cclxxi. L    

Against heat.  

Ca ccccxcv. B    

Against blains.  

Ca ccxl. B    

For the little pocks.  

Ca ccccxcv. C    

A good salve for all old sores.  

Ca ccccxciii.    

A very good experiment for old & new sores.  

Ca ccccc. D    

To draw out iron  

Ca clxxiiii. G  
Ca cclix. D    

Against lechery.  

Ca clx. A  
Ca clxxi. C  
Ca lxxxii. F  
Ca cccclxv. E    

To increase lechery.  

Ca cclv. B  
Ca ccc.lxxvi. ●    

Against gomorrea.  

Ca vi. A  
Ca lxxxii. A  
Ca xciii. E    

¶ For the genitors.  

Ca lxxviii.    

¶ For swollen bollocks.  

Ca ccclxi. A    

¶ For pain in the yard.  

Ca lxi. K  
Ca ccxxxvii. C  
Ca ccxlii. in the second A    

¶ For redness and rotting of the prive membres.  

Ca i. N    

¶ For herispylla.  

Ca ccccciiii. B    

¶ For pain in the rib.  

Ca lxi. oh    

¶ For bruising & brestenesse  

Ca xxxviii. B  
Ca lxii. A  
Ca lxxii. B  
Ca lxxv. A  
Ca ccclxxv. B  
Ca. ccccxxi. C    

For brustenesse in old or young folk whiter it be old or new.  

Ca cclxv. A    

For all manner of gout  

Ca cxx. B  
Ca cli. A  
Ca clvi. B  
Ca clviii. A  
Ca clix. A  
Ca ccvii. B  
Ca ccxii. A    

¶ For all aches caused of phlegm.  

Ca xxvii. A    

Against many diseases as arctic/ palsy/ epy●●nce/ ylyake/ strangury dyssu●y.  

Ca cccxxxviii. A    

Against gout arctic.  

Ca i. M  
Ca v. F  
Ca cxxxvii. D  
Ca clxii. C  
Ca lxix. C  
Ca. cccclxxxii. B  
Ca. cccclxxxiii. E  
Ca cccxcviii. C    

Against gout podagre.  

Ca v. F  
Ca lx. A  
Ca lxi. p  
Ca cii. D  
Ca xxxvi. B  
Ca ccxiii. B  
Ca ccclxxvi. B  
Ca. ccccxliiii. A  
Ca cccclxv. D    

For pain in the feet.  

Ca thirty. D  
Ca cxciii. B  
Ea. ccccxii. E    

¶ For swelling of the feet.  

Ca cii. H  
Ca cvii B  
Ca. cccxxxviii. E  
Ca cccxliiii. M  
Ca cccxliiii. F    

For gout scyatyke.  

Ca cc. A  
In lolio. C    

For the cramp  

Ca ccccxcviii. A    

For fever ague.  

Ca cxix. E  
Ca cxxii. F  
Ca cxlviii. D  
Ca cclxxxvi. A  
Ca cccxlix. C  
Ca ccclxiiii. A  
Ca ccclxxiiii. B  
Ca ccclxxxvii. D  
Ca. ccccxi. A  
Ca ccccxii. A  
Ca ccccxxxii B  
Ca. ccccxlix. A  
Ca cccclxxxii. N    

Against fever quotydran.  

Ca viii. E  
Ca xv. A  
Ca l. in balsamo. E  
Ca xli. S  
Ca lxxxiii. A  
Ca cxii. B  
Ca cxxxvii. A  
Ca clvii. A  
Ca clix A  
Ca clxii. A    

Against fever terrian  

Ca lxi. C  
Ca cccxliiii. K  
Ca cccclxxiii. B    

Against fever quartain.  

Ca v. B  
Ca lxi. V  
Ca lxxiii. F  
Ca lxxxiii. B  
Ca clxvii. C  
Ca ccxxiiii. C  
Ca ccxxx. b  
Ca ccxciii. A  
Ca ccclvi. S  
Ca. cccclxxii. D  
Ca. cccclxxiii. b    

For ethyke ague.  

Ca cxii. E  
Ca cclxx. b    

To digest matter of fever.  

Ca cclxxxi. A    

For the fervent ague  

Ca cxii. D  
Ca. cccclvii. b    

To delay ache.  

Ca cccxvi. C    

To quench thirst in a fever.  

Ca ccccxvii. A    

Against thirst.  

Ca cxlii. C  
Ca cccxxxvi. B  
Ca ccccxcv. D    

Against appetite  

Ca xxxii. C  
Ca lxi. h  
Ca lxxxvi. E  
Ca cccc. xvii. B  
Ca. cccclxxviii. C  
Ca ccccxcv. A  
Ca cclxxiii. B    

Against the falling sickness named epilencia:  

Ca v. F  
Ca xxvi. in the end.  
Ca xxviii. B  
Ca xciii. A  
Ca clxvi. C  
Ca clxx. A  
Ca clxxxvi. B  
Ca ccxvi. D  
Ca ccclxii. B    

To cause sleep.  

Ca ccxiii. A  
Ca ccxxxviii. A  
Ca cclxxix. in malua. D  
Ca cccxvi. A  
Ca cccxvi. B  
Ca cclxxviii. A  
Ca ccccxcvi. A    

To cause sleep in fever ague.  

Ca cccclvi.    

Against venom.  

Ca cxxi. B  
Ca clxv. A  
Ca cclxiii. A  
Ca cclxxi. E  
Ca cccx. A  
Ca ccclxii. N  
Ca cccxcii. A  
Ca ccccxxvi. A  
Ca ccccxxxviii. A  
Ca ccccl. C  
Ca. cccclxxiii. A  
Ca cccclxxxii. H  
Ca ccccxci. B    

¶ For biting of venomous beasts.  

Ca xviii. A  
Ca xxvi. A  
Ca xliii. A  
Ca lxi. l  
Ca cxxii. H  
Ca cxxxvi. A  
Ca cxlv. A  
Ca clxxxvi. C  
Ca ccx. A  
Ca cclix. A    

For to put out venom  

Ca ccclv. C  
Ca. cccclxxxiii. F    

Against biting of a serpent.  

Ca xxxviii. C  
Ca lxx. C  
Ca cccxliiii. E  
Ca. cccclxviii. A    

Against stinging of a scorpion.  

Ca cccxliiii. F  
Ca ccclxviii. I    

Against biting of a mad dog.  

Ca lxi. m  
Ca lxx. E  
Ca lxxvi. A  
Ca cvii A  
Ca cxxiii. A  
Ca cccx. B  
Ca cccxxiiii. A  
Ca cccxlv. A  
Ca ccccxxi. B  
Ca cccclxv. B  
In ca edus.    

Against the each of the legs.  

Ca gallinaria. B    

¶ Against skalled legs.  

Ca cccxxv. A    

Against blackness of a stroke.  

Ca: ci. F    

Against biting of a spider.  

Ca lxx. D    

Against stinging of honey bees.  

Ca cclxxi. I    

Against the back & tallockes  

Ca cccxxv. B    

Against tremble of the body.  

Ca ccccxci: A    

Against weariness  

Ca lxi. g    

For drunkenness.  

Ca xxii. D  
Ca lxi. c  
Ca lxxiii. B  
Ca ccccxcv. E    

To take hearefro the face.  

Ca cxi. B    

Against ill air.  

Ca ccccxcix. C  
Ca. ccccci. B    

Against kyrnelles or kings evil.  

Ca lxxiii. C  
Ca cii. G  
Ca lxxxix. C  
Ca cxcvi. B  
Ca clxxix D  
Ca. ccxv: C  
Ca ccxxxvi. G  
Ca cccclxxix. C    

To make a man lean  

Ca lii. A    

If a seek parson shall ●●e or not.  

Ca cxxii. A  
Ca ccclvi. C    

To purge phlegm.  

Ca i. A  
Ca i. D  
Ca lxxxvii. in cathapucia.  
Ca cxli A  
Ca clxiiii. B  
Ca ccxxxvi I    

For sinews.  

Ca thirty. C  
Ca xxxi. B  
Ca xl. C  
Ca lxix. B  
Ca clxxiiii. D  
Ca cclxxi. B  
Ca ccxcvi. A  
Ca ccclxviii. H  
Ca cccxc. A  
Ca ccccxxxv. A  
Ca ccccli. in the second. A    

To make a child merry.  

Ca thirty. E    

For broken sinews.  

Ca cccclviii. C    

For the fundament.  

Ca xlv. A  
Ca cli. in the second. A  
Ca clxxix. E  
Ca cclxxi. M    

For yontes.  

Ca ccxxvi. A  
Ca ccccxlvii. A  
Ca cccxc. A  
Ca cccclxxxiiii. A    

To make a ptisan.  

Ca cccxix. C    

Against ache outward of the limbs.  

Ca ccclxii. L    

¶ For to make conserve of roses.  

Ca ccclxiii. A    

To make syrups of roses.  

Ca ccclxiii. C    

To make oil of roses.  

Ca ccclxiii. D    

To drive fishes out of a place.  

Ca ccccl. A    

To spread humours.  

Ca cccxcv. A    

Against ring worms.  

Ca ccxxxvi. B    

For diseases of children.  

Ca clxxiiii. B    

Against ill toughtes  

Ca xxix. D    

¶ For them that be serfull.  

Ca lxi. a    

To make the folk merry.  

Ca lxviii. G  
Ca lxx. I    

¶ For motties & magotties or worms.  

Ca ccccxcix. B    

For recover strength  

Ca cccvii. C   
¶ Finis.   
¶ Thus endeth the great herbal with his tables which is translated out the french in to english. etc.   

 printer's device of Peter Treveris: McKerrow 60 
PETRUS TREVERIS   
¶ imprinted at London in Southwark by me Peter Treueris dwelling in the sign of the wodows. In the year of our lord god. M.D.xxvi. the xxvii. day of july.